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Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:43:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Joshua Lewis" <jmlewis@dslextreme.com>
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Subject: Re: Building a Stable Secure FreeBSD Mail server
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The MTA is PostFix

http://bsdhound.com/downloads/Creating_a_Stable_Secure_FreeBSD_Mailserver.pdf

Document date is 10/17/2003

So it is not to old. So far it is pretty accurate.


Thank you,
Joshua Lewis



dave
> Hi,
>     What mail server was this doc dealing with and can you give me the
> address? Some clues as to the age is what version of fbsd was being
> discussed, currently 4.10 is production stable while 5.2.1 is new
> technology, even though i use that on my production systems.
>     Not sure as to the difference between md5 and blf password hashing, i
> do
> know that they both are methods of encrypting a password and supposedly
> blf
> is more secure but it also doesn't have compatibility with anything else.
> HTH.
> Dave.
>
>