On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 09:38:57PM +0200, Pike wrote:
} Hi
}
} I wish I had read a mail like this before I started installing qmail on my
} server,
} which is exactly why I'm writing it. Call it frustration.
[snip]
} You even need to install things that are not in the package, which you have
} to find
} online somewhere (checkpasswd ?). Therefore, qmail is not a (complete)
} replacement
} for sendmail.
I don't see what this has to do with anything. Sendmail didn't come
with a pop3 program. You need checkpasswd only if you're going to use
qmail-pop3d. It's true that if you're going to continue to use
qpopper, as I have, you need to hack it a little to get ./Mailbox and
XTND XMIT working.
}
}
} Should you install qmail ?
} ---------------
}
} First of all, consider these:
}
} * You have to deinstall sendmail before starting to install qmail. While
} installing
} qmail, you won't be able to do mail. Also, you will probably make quite some
} changes to your fs, which makes it hard to just give up and reinstall
} sendmail.
} It's a good idea to completely backup your system so you'll be able to
} swap it
} back in once you really fall asleep and things are still not working.
}
} * There are some differences in securitymechanisms, for better or for worse.
Yes, qmail actually has them.
}
} * Qmail is probably also more inviting to hackers, just because it's more
} human.
I really doubt it. If you were a hacker, would you go after the SMTP
daemon with a long, documented history of successful exploits, with
exploit code available on the Web, or the one with no history of
successful exploits?
[snip]
}
} cu
} *PIKE*
}
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Paul J. Schinder
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
