On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, 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? > 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.
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