From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 15 13:15:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ux1.depaul.edu (ux1.depaul.edu [140.192.1.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3947937B4C5 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 13:15:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (bwolter@localhost) by ux1.depaul.edu (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA28685; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 15:10:12 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 15:10:11 -0600 (CST) From: Brian Wolter X-Sender: bwolter@ux1.depaul.edu To: "Hiu F. Ho" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help: Is Sendmail secure? In-Reply-To: <20001115205453.90758.qmail@web9801.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i just installed qmail under FreeBSD and SuSE Linux and i must say i prefer it to sendmail. the installation process is very simple and well documented, and the post-install configuration is much more straight forward. i can't really vouch for it's ability to handle heavy loads having only been using it a few days, but from the looks of things... it's starting to look like a wise choice. peace, brian t h e S a d M a c h i n e . o r g On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Hiu F. Ho wrote: > > Hi all, > > I need to set up a mail server on FreeBSD 4.x. Sendmail is installed > automatically when I install FreeBSD 4.x, but I've heard quite a few people > saying Sendmail is not secure and suggest me to use qmail. > > I expect the mail server to process only a small amount of mails (less than > 10,000/month). > > Is Sendmail really that bad? If I use qmail, do I need a separate POP > server? > > Please advise. Thank you. > > -Hiu > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! > http://calendar.yahoo.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message