From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 03:56:38 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1FFC1065672 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 03:56:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jarrod.sl@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C7908FC12 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 03:56:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm16 with SMTP id 16so7857840fxm.13 for ; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:56:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=M12o0BkvYB9lwkT4IyT6TaM6N4NdBn0Y80ql+hnU+kQ=; b=doEpNLAgJ1CNjwms3w+9aqzogI4E33vYjFOnSve6Pd8R07Zyi0r+BwUGcVPbOadBv8 9J6Iotv6BNTFcqY/QERPxnjvJq4Eoxscbk7fdp+K0N2v1iuxUaR0V+pFP4L6yh9Gz7DM biNhxn0eOCkwOzd6gi1La3lMfw/OWYpbPoY5Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=wq3CS2uc9zVSm5/Z1NkHOn99JS6ZWwcB+rJfDayt6yF7OQhbGwJo1Wk3Tc8f0XeKlF Rh/N25bAJH+1EGDFUXo5hGLHkC+LYpLit906kFtpB/zVRaCr5Jg0BBlyUQDeSxT5H794 4xcU8Guth/+GPPvgITbKq5Wpk+FeDU/4wksX0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.93.144 with SMTP id v16mr7500812fam.35.1296618995358; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:56:35 -0800 (PST) Sender: jarrod.sl@gmail.com Received: by 10.223.2.206 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 19:56:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <4D48197A.8000108@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 20:56:35 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: TuG0CVFe9WU_xNEfdp98nQWjZpU Message-ID: From: Jarrod Slick To: 839273@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: qmail or postfix? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:56:38 -0000 Calling qmail more secure is pretty much just echoing conjecture at this point. Sure, it was designed to be secure (years and years ago) and the original author even held a contest with a monetary reward for anyone who could find a vulnerability -- that said, AFAIK that person no longer maintains the project. It requires lots of third party patches to be as functional as postfix, so to what extent these patches counteract the original coder's (apparent) secure coding practices is open to debate. If you know of any specific problems with postfix that would substantiate your claim I encourage you to inform the project's maintainers. From personal experience I can say that I've run a postfix config for years without problems. Also, in most networks I don't think the MTA is a very prominent attack vector; people are probably much more likely to get in through that old wordpress installation you've been meaning to upgrade for 6 months (for instance). On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Andres Perera wrote: > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Alessandro Baggi > wrote: > > Hi list. Who is better, qmail or postfix? > > qmail is more secure... but the design is just as alien to unix as sendmail > is > > for example, the fact that qmail uses custom libc, or at least did so on > the > version i tried. that turns off certain maintainers, and it would put me > off > aswell > > postfix on the other hand is more in tune with the rest of the system > > > > > thanks in advance > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >