From owner-freebsd-security Mon Feb 12 14:17:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from tele-post-20.mail.demon.net (tele-post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B936B37B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:17:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from shootthemlater.demon.co.uk ([194.222.93.84] helo=cerebus.parse.net) by tele-post-20.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 14SRI5-0002LD-0K; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:17:49 +0000 Received: from wbra0013.cognos.com ([10.0.0.3] helo=acm.org) by cerebus.parse.net with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14SRAk-000P4B-00; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:10:14 +0000 Message-ID: <3A885F40.9C6AD285@acm.org> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:10:08 +0000 From: David Goddard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dominic Marks Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Secure Servers (SMTP, POP3, FTP) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Dominic Marks wrote: ... > Mail Options: > 1. Qmail - Secure, written for FreeBSD (Qwest?), Fast, Configurable > 2. Sendmail - Industry standard, works fine, big user base > 3. Postfix - Secure, quite light on system resources, growing support I can't believe no-one's mentioned Exim (http://www.exim.org/) yet - doddle to configure (particularly things like virtual domains) and as far as I understand it pretty secure. I spent a while deliberating between this and Postfix for my servers but plumped for Exim after a short evaluation. Given that I couldn't seperate them on the basis of security I went for Exim on usability. I say install both on a test machine and give them a whirl - but maybe someone here can offer a petter perspective on the security comparison... Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message