Thu, 19 Feb 2004, by gv-dated-7098286.cckeb@mygirlfriday.info: [..]
The ease of configuration and use of the above MTAs are based on your needs. Of course security is a main issue... qmail is the most secure, postfix second, sendmail last..
You're obviously (conveniently?) forgetting a couple of minor points. - It's the admin's work that's the main issue wrt security, not what software he/she runs. - Qmail hasn't been updated in 10 years or so, the basic package is secure, yes, but all the patches you need to use it in the 21st century are *not* proven to be just as secure (and djb won't vouch for those either). - Postfix's security record is at least as good as Qmail's, with *no* remote vulnerability, and only 1 local DoS vuln. that was solved a long time ago with the transition from 1.x to 2.x - Postfix doesn't need to be anal about what user runs what daemon, and doesn't need 4 or 5 new users and groups and the complexity of the initial setup. - Postfix is simple to grok, but it can also be used in complex situations. - Postfix's licence permits it to be distributed in either binary or source form. No need to go hunting for the correct patches, tricks&tips etc., it runs out-the-box on a x86 Linux box (and even under Cygwin/Windows I heard), but also on a 64 CPU Sun box or a PPC Mac under OS-X (they use it as default MTA aswell). Sorry, couldn't resist. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 8.2 + Jabber: gurp@jabber.org Kernel k_athlon-2.4.20 + MSN: twe-msn@ferrets4me.xs4all.nl See headers for PGP/GPG info. +