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Date:      Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:07:30 -0700
From:      R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Sendmail or ???
Message-ID:  <20000810100729.A54039@mammalia.org>
In-Reply-To: <14738.47181.994257.457281@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 09:12:29AM -0500
References:  <bulk.79852.20000809192043@hub.freebsd.org> <14738.47181.994257.457281@guru.mired.org>

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And Mike Meyer spoke:
> > From: Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com>
> > Out of the ether, Rick Hamell spewed forth the following bitstream:
> > > 	Ok, another question. Are there any major differances between
> > > Sendmail and Qmail (or another mailer) that I should be aware of? I'm a
> > > bit concerned with security, but not sure I'm ready to tackle
> > > Sendmail. Qmail looks to be a little easier, but I'm not sure who it is
> > > security wise. Thanks for help!
> > I'd personally recommend qmail if you are limiting yourself to a choice
> > of one of those two.
> 
> Yup. Sendmail is a large program with a lot of power - that most
> people simple don't need these days (does anyone out there still use
> bitnet or berknet email addresses?). It's got a long history of
> security problems. Qmail has had no security problems. While it's
> relative youth and small user base certainly have something to do with
> that, the author did offer a reward for security bugs at one point -
> which went unclaimed.
> 
> I personally like the maildir format for mail storage as well, but
> that does restrict your choice of UMAs a bit.
> 
> > If I were chosing today, I would look into postfix.
> 
> Ditto. When I switched from sendmail to qmail, postfix wasn't quite
> ready for primetime. Otherwise, I would have given it a look. I'm
> happy enough with qmail that I haven't bothered to look again.
> 
I'm using postfix, and it's easy to set up for my very small system. I
read the documentation for qmail and it sounds nice, but the reason I 
didn't go with it is because it puts everything under /var, and I just 
*hate* that :).

Joseph


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