From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 15 19:47: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bruiser.netorbit.com (unknown [209.15.87.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6883537B4C5 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 19:47:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from bruiser (unknown [192.168.70.51]) by bruiser.netorbit.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 826DA9884; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 21:45:04 -0600 (CST) From: "R.Munden" To: "Hiu F. Ho" Cc: Subject: RE: Help: Is Sendmail secure? Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 21:30:29 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I won't answer the sendmail security question. You can search the archives and probably find lots of dialogue on the subject. qmail in my experience does a great job with high volumes. I have a client that relays about 40000-50000 emails through an old HP-LP5(dual PI-100) every Monday night via SMTP and they are usually all delivered by Tuesday morning. qmail also provides its own popper. --rjm-- "... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Brian Wolter > Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 3:10 PM > To: Hiu F. Ho > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Help: Is Sendmail secure? > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message