From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 9 3:51:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dark4ce.com (dark4ce.com [194.109.74.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C4F937B408 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 03:51:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by dark4ce.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f99Ap8k28998 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 12:51:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 12:51:08 +0200 From: Hanno Liem To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sendmail or Postfix? Message-ID: <20011009125108.A28981@dark4ce.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, The company I'm working for is currently running Sendmail 8.8 on various Suns and FreeBSD boxes. I am planning to reinstall everything because of several reasons (one of which is security). I am considering moving over to Postfix. It seems that there are less security issues with Postfix and that it is more stable. Is this an illusion? :-) I know that sendmail has a larger userbase and is older; this could be a hint that it is better, but I wouldn't know; have little experience with administering mail systems. I have some experience with sendmail. If I would like to have as little hassle as possible and don't -really- want to do exotic things (okay, I know, this is pretty vague) - what should I use? Sendmail? Postfix? Something else? Issues: - If possible, avoiding to patch every week for the buffer overflow of the day. Security. - Simple to configure. Well. As simple as possible. Thanks, Han To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message