Hi again, I am concerned about the security of Sendmail, in comparison to Postfix or Qmail, but don't have much insight on the issues involved. Likewise, as I am a newbie to Linux, I am hoping to reduce the learning curve in my attempts to get Mutt to work the way I want it to. Would I be better off with Postfix or Qmail? What are the pros and cons? Where do Fetchmail and Procmail fit into the scheme of things? Cheers, Brian
E-mail is a non-trivial system and diagrams are very helpful. I will
try with just text.
I have never installed Sendmail, just hacked a running system to
keep it running. Sendmail or Qmail or Postfix won't much difference
to Mutt unless you are doing something very unusual. Postfix is being
developed: bugfixes, minor improvements, etc. IIRC, Qmail is not
actively being developed any longer. I have a mild preference for
Postfix over Qmail. I strongly prefer both to Sendmail.
There are books available for all three: Sendmail has O'Reilly book,
Qmail and Postfix have books by Richard Blum. The Postfix book is
okay for initial setup, disappointingly little advanced content.
Qmail and Postfix both have good e-mail lists. Don't know about
Sendmail.
Fetchmail pulls e-mail from POP and IMAP servers and either hands it
to the SMTP server (all three include this) or hands it to a Mail
Delivery Agent (MDA) like Procmail. MDAs allow sorting mail into
different inboxes, filtering out spam, etc.
HTH,
Jeffrey
Quoting Brian Durant
Hi again,
I am concerned about the security of Sendmail, in comparison to Postfix or Qmail, but don't have much insight on the issues involved. Likewise, as I am a newbie to Linux, I am hoping to reduce the learning curve in my attempts to get Mutt to work the way I want it to. Would I be better off with Postfix or Qmail? What are the pros and cons? Where do Fetchmail and Procmail fit into the scheme of things?
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:41:46PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
I am concerned about the security of Sendmail, in comparison to Postfix or Qmail, but don't have much insight on the issues involved. Likewise, as I am a newbie to Linux, I am hoping to reduce the learning curve in my attempts to get Mutt to work the way I want it to. Would I be better off with Postfix or Qmail? What are the pros and cons? Where do Fetchmail and Procmail fit into the scheme of things?
I prefer Postfix over Qmail for a couple of practical reasons. I think you will find both of them superior to sendmail in ease of use and security. I have found Postfix easier to understand and configure than Qmail (I run a Qmail server at work, but Postfix on my laptop), and Postfix is included and well supported in SuSE (their commercial e-mail product is based on Postfix). I've also used and liked Exim, but again, it is not included in SuSE. I actually compiled the 3.4 version of Exim into an RPM for SuSE 7.3 and uploaded it to the SuSE contrib FTP site in January, but they have not made it available. Oh, well. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MSCE, N+ I can C for miles and miles Got spam? Get SPASTIC http://spastic.sourceforge.net
Hi again,
I am concerned about the security of Sendmail, in comparison to Postfix or Qmail, but don't have much insight on the issues involved. Likewise, as I am a newbie to Linux, I am hoping to reduce the learning curve in my attempts to get Mutt to work the way I want it to. Would I be better off with Postfix or Qmail? What are the pros and cons? Where do Fetchmail and Procmail fit into the scheme of things?
Postfix. That I truly think you want. I have tried Sendmail, but I have better to do than tweak a mail transfer agent all the time. I tried Qmail as it was advertised secure. Yes, it must be secure as I never had it up and running. I maintain few servers for as many companies and they all use Postfix - no problems for two yeas now. Maybe luck, perhaps not. Cheers, --jq
Il 18:04, martedì 9 aprile 2002, Jyry Kuukkanen ha scritto:
Hi again,
I am concerned about the security of Sendmail, in comparison to Postfix or Qmail, but don't have much insight on the issues involved. Likewise, as I am a newbie to Linux, I am hoping to reduce the learning curve in my attempts to get Mutt to work the way I want it to. Would I be better off with Postfix or Qmail? What are the pros and cons? Where do Fetchmail and Procmail fit into the scheme of things?
I am running my first email server. I started to see how sendmail was, and how secure was. After a week of readings, I gave up. It is known that it is not the most secure mail server around, and it does not make me feel very secure. Moreover it was not very trivial to set up. So I tried qmail and I have had it running. I had to follow "Life with qmail" and even if I have done everything like discribed, I had some problems with logging, and processes dying very fastly (I had some false positive running chrootkit in that period). I tried the qmail mailing list but I saw that they do not have a very good attitude with beginners like I am:-) So I decided to go with postfix, I downloaded the latest rpm from suse and I had it working in a rush. It's easier than both the others, and they claim it is even faster. Praise
Hi Brian, Brian Durant wrote:
Hi again,
I am concerned about the security of Sendmail, in comparison to Postfix or Qmail, but don't have much insight on the issues involved. Likewise, as I am a newbie to Linux, I am hoping to reduce the learning curve in my attempts to get Mutt to work the way I want it to. Would I be better off with Postfix or Qmail? What are the pros and cons? Where do Fetchmail and Procmail fit into the scheme of things?
I found postfix easier to configure and set up... the configuration files are well commented, and it's shipped with lots of configuration examples. Very easy to set up, very flexible if you need a complex configuration. There is an Howto (written for RedHat, but it doesn't matter so much) out there... At the end of your learning process you should have (retrieving mail): ISP <- Fetchmail -> postfix -> procmail -> local mailbox <- mutt and (sending mail): mutt -> postfix -> ISP (or the outer world...) Ciao alex -- Alessandro Dotti Contra alessandro.dotti@libero.it http://digilander.iol.it/yellowjester/
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