From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 15 22:54:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EDCB137B4C5 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 22:54:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 49617 invoked by uid 100); 16 Nov 2000 06:54:09 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14867.33937.379915.199934@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 00:54:09 -0600 (CST) To: Chris Fedde Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help: Is Sendmail secure? In-Reply-To: <22366185@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Fedde types: > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:54:53 -0800 (PST) "Hiu F. Ho" wrote: > +------------------ > | Is Sendmail really that bad? If I use qmail, do I need a separate POP > | server? > +------------------ > Sendmail is not realy that bad. You need a seperate pop server if you > are running sendmail. Sendmail has a history of security problems, mostly because it dates from the days when the internet was a nice neighborhood. It includes a lot of functionality that generally isn't needed these days. Qmail are designed for dealing with internet mail, not berknet/uucp/BITNet/ArpaNet/whatever. They were also designed after the internet stopped being a collection of friends, so security was a design consideration. That said, if you're running a small site, don't plan on making a target of yourself, and follow the FreeBSD security announcements, there probably isn't a lot of difference. Sendmail being part of the FreeBSD distribution means there are fewer headaches if you ant to run it.