Hi list,
Since configuring sendmail is a pain (to me that is) and since sendmail is known for its security holes, I decided that I want to try qmail. But
Technically speaking there's only been one sendmail security hole in the last 2-3 years. Might want to make sure your facts are straight (not that I use sendmail myself because of security concerns =).
SuSE doesn't distribute qmail. Does anyone outhere know where to download an RPM that can be trusted and that will fit in with my SuSE 7.1 (2.2) system? I learned to trust SuSE (I know, unwise), but who else can be trusted?
You can't really, the license on qmail, well that's a problem, for one thing it doesn't ship with a license, only a vague reference to DJB's web pages. Which say conflicting things. But boil down to you cannot modify qmail and ship binaries, and since DJB installs qmail into very non standard file locations it causes quite a mess (OpenBSD dropped qmail/etc from the ports tree, to much hassle). Basically creating a properly working rpm for qmail is impossible. Get the source, or better yet get Postfix (which has a sane license and active devel, and was designed for security) and conviniently available as RPM's.
Yours, Ruben
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