* postfix vs. qmail
@ 2002-10-06 21:55 Petre Bandac
2002-10-07 11:00 ` Milan P. Stanic
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From: Petre Bandac @ 2002-10-06 21:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-admin
I want to get rid of sendmail and frankly I don't know which to choose:
postfix or qmail, as both of them are said to be projected with the purpose
of security in mind.
can I have some of your opinions/suggestions/experience with them, please ?
thanks,
petre
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* Re: postfix vs. qmail
2002-10-06 21:55 postfix vs. qmail Petre Bandac
@ 2002-10-07 11:00 ` Milan P. Stanic
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From: Milan P. Stanic @ 2002-10-07 11:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-admin
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:55:07AM +0300, Petre Bandac wrote:
> I want to get rid of sendmail and frankly I don't know which to choose:
> postfix or qmail, as both of them are said to be projected with the purpose
> of security in mind.
>
> can I have some of your opinions/suggestions/experience with them, please ?
Well, both have their pros and cons.
Postfix config file syntax is more "user friendly". Compared to
Sendmail it is really simple to configure.
Postfix is under IBM Public License (I can't interpret it) but it is
packaged with GNU/Debian, so it is free to use.
Qmail is little cumbersome (like other DJB's software) to configure,
until one gets familiar with it, and after that it easy, too.
It is (in theory) safer. I didn't heard about any vulnerability in
qmail yet. License for qmail is little strange. It discourages binary
distributions of software.
The authors of both are well known as security conscious (I'd better
say they are security experts).
Milan
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