On Fri Apr 12, 2002 at 11:55:07AM -0700, Brook Humphrey wrote: [...] > > > Sorry that the guy sucks but at least his software works as intended and > > > I never have to wory about the security of it. > > > > Not to continue a flamewar, but isn't postfix just as secure as qmail? > > Wietse Venema's no slouch in the security department. > Ok. Here goes. It's not that postfix is insecure. It's great. > > However; I prefer maildir's. When setting up virtual servers it makes it much > easier to enforce quotas. Allot of this is that I'm relly attached to > maildirs and don't want to give them up. I like the maildir format and the > way the mail is handled much better than the old way of doing. > > If you can give me a good mta that does maildirs and is reasonably fast I'll > look at it but for now the choices are limited. at least courier can be set > up to handle the pop and imap but for now I'm kind of attached to qmail for > smtp services.
Likewise. qmail is secure, rock solid, stable, and extremely low maintenance. Also the simplest MTA I've ever had the pleasure of configuring and maintaining. That being said, both postfix and exim support Maildirs (not by default, but they both do). Out of the two, I prefer exim... I like how it's configured much more than postfix... postfix tries to be too sendmail-ish for me. I've never liked postfix. Having said that, exim has had more security problems than postfix, and postfix has had more than qmail. AFAIK, postfix has had one security problem (maybe two... I'd have to check). qmail, on the other hand, has had none. That gives me confidence. It's also (1.03) not in active development, unlike postfix, which means that no new bugs due to new features, etc. can crop up... that possibility is greater in postfix than qmail due to postfix's active development. That isn't to say qmail isn't in development.. djb is supposedly working on qmail v2 but that's all closed development, with no ETA as to when it will be publically available. But that's a topic for another day... in the meantime, qmail does everything I need, and does it well... I won't be changing anytime soon. > Others are always an option when and if they become available. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx -source http://www.freezer-burn.org/bios/vdanen.gpg | gpg --import" 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD Current Linux kernel 2.4.18-6mdk uptime: 4 days 12 hours 25 minutes.
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