On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 05:44:46PM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote: > > I have a local box that downloads all my mail (~8 accounts) via fetchmail. > It's processed by sendmail/procmail and sorted into Maildir folder. > From there I retrieved via courier-imap (ssl) in Thunderbird. > > This has worked well, but since it's been running there have been quite > a few security advisories in fetchmail, sendmail and procmail. > I'm not fond of any of their configs or syntax either, so won't mind > trying some alternatives on my new server.
If it ain't broken... > What would be a good procmail replacement? I've searched around, but > couldn't find anything that provides the same functionality. > I have a lot of email so like to sort it into specific folders. IMO the best replacement for procmail is procmail. :-) > For sendmail, qmail looks like a good contender. Any others that I > might consider? Generally it seems like a qmail is pretty solid? Postfix works well and is easy to configure. > Also anything special I need to do to uninstall or get rid of sendmail > on my system? Put the following in /etc/rc.conf; sendmail_enable="NONE" To disable the building of sendmail next time you do a 'make buildworld', add the following to /etc/src.conf; WITHOUT_SENDMAIL=true > While we're at it, any alternatives to bind? We have a slow internet so > like to cache things locally. > Other than local lookup and caching, nothing else is needed. Here you go; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DNS_server_software Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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