Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 20:56:35 -0700 From: Jarrod Slick <jarrod@e-sensibility.com> To: 839273@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qmail or postfix? Message-ID: <AANLkTik9SfKtyaaQDmYq%2B3tM8PPzMAH3x56tGiT8LtcY@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin5o1zRq-=V_k0r8bgT5ZH4Dc5qfdpZpUZTvFcy@mail.gmail.com> References: <4D48197A.8000108@gmail.com> <AANLkTin5o1zRq-=V_k0r8bgT5ZH4Dc5qfdpZpUZTvFcy@mail.gmail.com>
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Calling qmail more secure is pretty much just echoing conjecture at this point. Sure, it was designed to be secure (years and years ago) and the original author even held a contest with a monetary reward for anyone who could find a vulnerability -- that said, AFAIK that person no longer maintains the project. It requires lots of third party patches to be as functional as postfix, so to what extent these patches counteract the original coder's (apparent) secure coding practices is open to debate. If you know of any specific problems with postfix that would substantiate your claim I encourage you to inform the project's maintainers. From personal experience I can say that I've run a postfix config for years without problems. Also, in most networks I don't think the MTA is a very prominent attack vector; people are probably much more likely to get in through that old wordpress installation you've been meaning to upgrade for 6 months (for instance). On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Andres Perera <andres.p@zoho.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Alessandro Baggi > <alessandro.baggi@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi list. Who is better, qmail or postfix? > > qmail is more secure... but the design is just as alien to unix as sendmail > is > > for example, the fact that qmail uses custom libc, or at least did so on > the > version i tried. that turns off certain maintainers, and it would put me > off > aswell > > postfix on the other hand is more in tune with the rest of the system > > > > > thanks in advance > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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