On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Mike Brodbelt wrote:

> Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Antony Stone wrote:
> >>What has sendmail's *recent* history of security problems been like?   Where
> >>can I see some tests showing postfix or qmail are better?
> >>
> >
> > Security issues aside, postfix is significantly simpler to setup and
> > maintain than sendmail and deals just fine with heavy loads. It might be
> > slightly less flexible, but for 99% of all users I'd say it's more than
> > flexible enough.
>
> If you know what you're doing with mail, sendmail isn't hard to setup.
> My sendmail.mc has only 58 non-comment lines, which isn't exactly
> terrifying.
>
I agree, but for the inexperienced admin Postfix is usually simpler.
Both are nice MTAs.

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