Re: why qmail is more secure, was: Mailing list performance

[Dave Sill]

Ronny Haryanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On 02-Aug-2000, Dave Sill wrote:
>> I don't think it's quite as secure as qmail
>
>Would you care to shed some light on why you don't think so?

Two reasons:

1) Postfix only uses a single uid. qmail uses six.

2) Wietse's code is buggier than Dan's. Check the historical record.
(To be fair, *everyone's* code is buggier than Dan's. :-)

Postfix *can* be configured to run chrooted, which is a plus for
it. But that doesn't outweigh the above.

-Dave