Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:07:30 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Sendmail or ??? Message-ID: <20000810100729.A54039@mammalia.org> In-Reply-To: <14738.47181.994257.457281@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 09:12:29AM -0500 References: <bulk.79852.20000809192043@hub.freebsd.org> <14738.47181.994257.457281@guru.mired.org>
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And Mike Meyer spoke: > > From: Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com> > > Out of the ether, Rick Hamell spewed forth the following bitstream: > > > Ok, another question. Are there any major differances between > > > Sendmail and Qmail (or another mailer) that I should be aware of? I'm a > > > bit concerned with security, but not sure I'm ready to tackle > > > Sendmail. Qmail looks to be a little easier, but I'm not sure who it is > > > security wise. Thanks for help! > > I'd personally recommend qmail if you are limiting yourself to a choice > > of one of those two. > > Yup. Sendmail is a large program with a lot of power - that most > people simple don't need these days (does anyone out there still use > bitnet or berknet email addresses?). It's got a long history of > security problems. Qmail has had no security problems. While it's > relative youth and small user base certainly have something to do with > that, the author did offer a reward for security bugs at one point - > which went unclaimed. > > I personally like the maildir format for mail storage as well, but > that does restrict your choice of UMAs a bit. > > > If I were chosing today, I would look into postfix. > > Ditto. When I switched from sendmail to qmail, postfix wasn't quite > ready for primetime. Otherwise, I would have given it a look. I'm > happy enough with qmail that I haven't bothered to look again. > I'm using postfix, and it's easy to set up for my very small system. I read the documentation for qmail and it sounds nice, but the reason I didn't go with it is because it puts everything under /var, and I just *hate* that :). Joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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