Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (606 mails)

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And Sendmail is insecure or is that the _thought_?

Regards,

Jon

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, rise wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Jason P. Stanford wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't agree that Postfix is more secure than Qmail. In fact, Mr.
> > Bernstein (the creator of qmail has a bit about just that on his web
> > site at http://cr.yp.to/qmail/warfield.html).
>
> Please note that despite Mr. Bernstein's coding skills his paranoia and
> reliance on personal attacks instead of logic make him a less then
> trustworthy reviewer of other people's work.  Qmail may or may not be more
> secure than Postfix, but I wouldn't trust his opinion on the topic as far
> as I could throw the printed copies of all the mail the two packages have
> delivered - he's simply incapable of being fair on this topic.  Both
> Postfix and Qmail are currently thought to be secure, both are good
> choices for an SMTP server regardless of what Mr. Bernstein would like to
> believe.
>
> Jonathan Conway
> rise@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
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