"Bockermann, Christian" wrote:
Good morning !!
Security of a mail-system seems to be really important and I wonder why SuSE still keeps on using Sendmail as MTA. I walked through a lot of docs and howtos and thought it as VERY difficult setting up a Mail-System. YaST is doing a really great job in maintaining the system, setting up etc... BUT why does SuSE not provide the possibility of installing qmail. I switched from Sendmail to qmail and think it's great. It is easy to configure, works fast, is secure (I've been told the guy who wrote qmail even rewrote some of the libc-functions, because he didn't trust the common ones, also there is a reward of some money for security-bugs in qmail) Will there be use of qmail by SuSE sometime in the future ? (I think the mail-server of SuSE itself is qmail - right ?)
I dont' know about qmail and the SuSE-distros. But I know for sure you can select postfix as an MTA directly out of the SuSE-install-process (as of SuSE 6.4). I work as an independent consultant for Internet-services, with hot topics "email" and "security". In my work, I was satisfied with postfix under Linux/SuSE. Bye the way, yesterday there was a thread like "SuSE should be as secure as OpenBSD". AFAIK OpenBSD still uses sendmail... --emmerich