On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 01:43, David Guntner wrote: > Lyvim Xaphir grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 00:18, David E. Fox wrote: > > > > > > I was under the impression postfix was relay proof - any > > > advice will be helpful... > > It pretty much is, as long as you didn't break something mucking around > with the configuration files. "Out of the box," it has relaying turned > off. You have to do things to it in order to open it up. Check your > config files. > > > My advice, which again will look like a cop-out, but in actuality is > > very serious, is that you switch to qmail. Vincent Danen, rpmhelp.net > > Oh yea, qmail is great. If you happen to like pain. > > --Dave > > (And yes, I've administered sites running qmail. I'll take postfix every > time.)
Personally I've had zero trouble installing qmail and zero trouble administering qmail. Most of the complaints I've seen about qmail in my own work experience have come from people that don't really know what they are doing, or are too lazy to tackle a learning curve. The fact is that postfix is not as secure as qmail. This isn't a matter that's up for arguability, it's a matter that is an established fact based on bugtraq archives. I've been monitoring the bugtraq mailing list for over 5 years now and I have consistently seen postfix security problems come up over and over again. Qmail, on the other hand, has to have made some kind of Guiness World record for NO security breaches or problems; ever. There have been problems with some of the patches that people have submitted, but there have never been any security problems with the core programs that were authored by Dan Bernstein. I personally have never seen a program with this kind of security record. I know about the rivalry between postfix and qmail on the newsgroups. Based on the information I have gained over the last 5 years, postfix has had security problems and qmail has not. Qmail has a pristine operating history and postfix does not. It's just that simple. LX -- ����������������������������������������������� Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk "Lets face it if winblowz wasn't full of holes then it would probably look like Linux" -- Aron Smith, Mandrake OT mailing list *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* ������������������������������������������������
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