hey i was not hired to do an advertisement on TV hehe anyway ....ive been bugged from what i read about security matters regarding sendmail ...i wanna find out if it is true coz i wanna try out configuring a mail server on my box here just to test it out...good enough i found out sendmail is not good to start and study mailservers (hehe that's according to the experienced users here on PLUG) ...well anyway at least my choices are norrowed down to only two , postfix and qmail....ill think ill try that out that is if i already finished RTFM (Reading the Fuc**** Manual) = )...anyway batchmate thanks also for your advice = ) On Tuesday 02 October 2001 12:38 am, you wrote: > Oy Lloyd, batchmate and PLDT Fine Arts guy! (Hehe joke lang) Nice to see > you here. So, have you yet realized that you just started a flame war > around here? ;) > > I don't have much to contribute, as I've only used sendmail (and only as an > experiment with the (then) courses.ateneo.edu server). But if you're just > looking for something that works and want to take off in a nostalgic road > trip (or scared to try out anything else out there for fear of getting > trampled upon by the technomob), then start experimenting with sendmail > right away -- it's good for you, and it will get you acquainted with its > strengths and flaws to see why people here on this board prefer > postfix/qmail/whatever. =) > > To get you started, let's just say that sendmail was an age-old solution > designed to work with lots of outgoing mail-delivery protocols out there, > way before there was a standard. We have less use for this benefit > nowadays since the SMTP standard has been here for so long, and > unfortunately all the extra infrastructure needed to support tons of > protocols made sendmail big and bloated, and consequentially hard to > maintain security-wise. (To others: don't quote me on this, and don't even > argue with me--I'm not even a techie. ;)) All in all, sendmail is a very > wise engineering effort for its time, but it would benefit from a cleaner > redesign now. > > Not a recommendation based out of personal experience, but I'm gonna try > postfix myself once we get a few Linux boxen to play with. > > Eric ^_^ > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at > http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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