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Re: [SLE] SPAM: sendmail vs postfix
- From: Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:44:36 -0500
- Message-id: <1137210276.6914.18.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 17:41 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Friday 13 January 2006 17:31, Ken Schneider wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 23:00 +0200, it clown wrote:
> > > Is postfix more secure than sendmail? As i understand less
> > > daemons run as root under postfix.
> >
> > I have three under sendmail and six under postfix. Looks like sendmail
> > uses fewer to me. As far as one being easier to setup then the other it
> > all depends on which one you grow up on. YMMV.
>
> I think he was referring to 'daemons running as root' and I know that postfix
> follows the philosophy that 'no process runs with more privs than it needs'.
>
> So it would be a question of which has more daemons running as root.
>
In that case it is one each.
--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
> On Friday 13 January 2006 17:31, Ken Schneider wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 23:00 +0200, it clown wrote:
> > > Is postfix more secure than sendmail? As i understand less
> > > daemons run as root under postfix.
> >
> > I have three under sendmail and six under postfix. Looks like sendmail
> > uses fewer to me. As far as one being easier to setup then the other it
> > all depends on which one you grow up on. YMMV.
>
> I think he was referring to 'daemons running as root' and I know that postfix
> follows the philosophy that 'no process runs with more privs than it needs'.
>
> So it would be a question of which has more daemons running as root.
>
In that case it is one each.
--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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