Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 00:54:09 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help: Is Sendmail secure? Message-ID: <14867.33937.379915.199934@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <22366185@toto.iv>
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Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> 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. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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