Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:36:49 +0200 From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> To: mail25@bzerk.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Message-ID: <20040616153648.GA77456@lori.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20040616145305.GB15913@ei.bzerk.org> References: <40D023A1.8090009@cs.uiowa.edu> <20040616140305.GD32001@millerlite.local.mark-and-erika.com> <20040616145305.GB15913@ei.bzerk.org>
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On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:53:05PM +0200, mail25@bzerk.org wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:03:05AM -0400, Mark Frank typed: > > * On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 05:40:33AM -0500 Jason Dusek wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am having a lot of trouble setting up mail. And, perhaps more > > > importantly, I am having a lot of trouble figuring what software to > > > set-up. Sendmail is standard but buggy, so I imagine that Postfix is a > > > better choice. > > > > Just curious. What sendmail bugs are you referring? Have you reported > > them to sendmail.org? > > Probably just hear-say. There's so much bad-mouthing sendmail! Most of > it by people who got lost in sendmail's many configuration options, but > instead of reading some docs they drop it, telling everybody they should > avoid sendmail at all cost. > > Too bad, 'cause to me and many others sendmail is one of the most > reliable and compliant MTA's in existance today. And there hasn't been > a major security problem in years. > > just .02 euro. >From what I have heard and read... sendmail indeed has a serious history of security-issues (as it was not initially designed for the Internet as we know it today), but has had a major code cleanup a while ago, and doesn't run SUID anymore, so it should be much more secure now. Anyway, Postfix has been developed as a "security-enhanced but compatible" alternative to sendmail. And as someone else mentioned already, its configuration is indeed quite straightforward. Personally, I would use sendmail on end-user machines (e.g. for use with fetchmail) because it's in the base system, but Postfix for mailservers with more complex configuration or security-concerns. Btw, can anyone of the sendmail-guru's tell me how sendmail compares performancewise? GH
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