From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G7YP0-0008Qc-Bz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:05:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6VE2IcF003553; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:02:18 GMT Received: from kenny.caerphilly.djnauk.co.uk (82-71-50-22.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.71.50.22]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6VDw8bI021487 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:58:08 GMT Received: from [10.0.1.10] (jonathan.wireless.djnauk.co.uk [10.0.1.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kenny.caerphilly.djnauk.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF01891E7 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:58:07 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <44CE0C67.206@djnauk.co.uk> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:57:59 +0100 From: Jonathan Wright User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060613) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail and qmail References: <217e6afb0607302300j313a56fh66a9e7f1815a91e4@mail.gmail.com> <44CDF760.9060507@mid.message-center.info> <558b73fb0607310608j6482bbfbre28adef65f32099b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <558b73fb0607310608j6482bbfbre28adef65f32099b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 723a866b-ded7-4780-8235-081b661c02f2 X-Archives-Hash: ec21ecf1b800b69e286f5f393f72e5d7 Michael Crute wrote: > I would beg to differ with the statement about security. Qmail is > arguably THE MOST secure mail server > (http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html). It may be 'secure' from that respect, but not from any other. In it's default settings, it's far too accepting and is a pain to close down. It uses non-standard locations and configuration, and is popular with Spammers as they can use it 'bounce' spam onto third parties by send mail (via the server) to the server with an invalid delivery address and the destination as the recipient. It also find it generally flaky when running and a poor performer (I love it when it decides to restart itself, but fails because the old process hasn't shutdown quick enough and stops the new process form running). > That said, I use postfix and love it. Same here - it's so easy and straight forward to configure, stable (I've had it running for months without even having to think about it) and good support for newer technologies (such as RBL, MAPS, SPF and Greylisting). qmail doesn't support any of them by standard - to use it, you must either find a binary that supports it (via binary distributions, or compile them in yourself). Plus, IIRC, there's no active development in qmail. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail@djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.17-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b1 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 21:58, 0 users, load average: 0.16, 0.41, 0.49 -- cat /dev/random (because u never know, u may see something u like) -- "Some see the move as an attempt to preserve traditional values, while others see it as a cynical ploy to ensure that Vice President Dick Cheney will never have to pay for his gay daughter's wedding." ~ Jon Stewart, on President Bush's proposal for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list