1 Nov
2000
1 Nov
'00
22:23
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:43:47PM -0700, Kurt Seifried wrote:
I think sendmail supports it now, but postfix supports using databases as the config files, i.e. virtualusertable is in a MySQL DB, meaning changing it on the fly is trivial. Also one HUGE advantage in postfix and qmail is that they only run a small component as root, so if there is a buffer overflow/etc it is less likely to be fatal, whereas sendmail is a huge blob of run as root code.
Sendmail does not have to run as root. You can make it drop all root privledges and change to a different user. It just depends on your mail system setup. -miah