Agreed, about 99% of it is preference and knowledge of what you use. Postfix, exim (3 and 4), and sendmail all natively provide auth smtp and tls as well as most any other feature the average admin uses.
Carl ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Jolet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] sendmail devel? > Antony Stone wrote: > > >On Friday 05 March 2004 7:54 pm, Jim Maul wrote: > > > > > > > >>><soapbox> On the other hand, remove sendmail and install Postfix instead. > >>> > >>> > >>Or qmail. Both are more secure than sendmail. > >> > >> > > > >Is this still true? I know sendmail had a bad history of security problems > >in its early days (but then again it has been around for a very long time). > > > >What has sendmail's *recent* history of security problems been like? Where > >can I see some tests showing postfix or qmail are better? > > > >Regards, > > > >Antony, > > > > > > > this is ot, however, we just moved our gateway mail servers from > sendmail to postfix and saw a tremendous cpu-utilization drop. Security > concerns aside, postfix is (in my opinion) a heck of a lot easier to > manage and configure. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Clamav-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
