On 30 Jan 2001, at 1:03, Kurt Seifried wrote:
them it's secure". No, Qmail, as it ships from DJB, is a pain in the ass :P. I've tried to move to it several times (long ago), and tested it more recently, and I've never liked the results (and I get paid to spend my time on things like this).
Hi, I have to do with a couple of servers, each with a couple of thousand mail users. Using qmail I have not found any security problem. Serving about 30-50 domains with Djbdns is no problem. I found no real advantages compared to bind but that I had to update bind about 3 to 4 times the last 6 months to keep somewhat secure. I like the advantages of bind series 9 (threads, somewhat of virtual load balancing). Some of these features are not available for all OSs I use, specialy the lack of threads on some BSDs require to use bind 9 with --disable-threads. Design decisions of the ext2 filesystem prohibit the use of Linux on systems that need some level of integrity. Some time ago a couple of lawyers I would call friends put together a 200 page document about the BSD vs. GPL vs. DJB licences, probably I could dig it out. DJBs licence is optimal for security compareable to the licence sun put solaris under. mike