On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:53:05PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"