Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:34:54 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com> To: Scott Benjamin <SBenjamin@quest.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail VS Qmail Message-ID: <3767FC5E.59E12B48@eboa.com> References: <1D7D0A00F0E8D111A26600104B873E4C01783FA2@exchange.quests.com>
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Scott Benjamin wrote: > > I'm running a box and I'm concerned with the security of that machine. I've > heard some remarks that Sendmail is not very secure and that Qmail is. Can > anyone validate this rumor? > Is Qmail that good of an alternative? There have been huge threads written about just that topic. Personally I've tried qmail for a while but didn't find it as comfortable as sendmail. So I went back to sendmail. As to security, sendmail is as safe as you make it. And it sees a lot of use, so there is lots of feedback and information out there. Maybe too much <g>. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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