sorry... i am quite new to debian. I am looking for a mailsystem that can forward incoming mails via ruleset to another host (on sendmail i user virtusertables). How can this be done with exim. you are talking quite a lot about gnu pop3d... what is the deb package name ??
thanks grischa -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 6:13 PM To: Jeremy C. Reed Cc: Litzler Mih?ly; debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: POP3 and SMTP server for an ISP On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 08:42:04AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, [iso-8859-2] Litzler Mihály wrote: > > > Okey, what do you think about the security of exim? > > I couldn't find any Exim advisories or incident or Vulnerability notes at > CERT. There are none. > I found a July 1997 BugTraq posting for a very old version of Exim (posted > by Qmail's author). Go figure. :) > You can't really easily search the SecurityFocus website for Exim -- > because the headers are indexed AND many emails were sent by Exim :) > > This subject of "security of exim" has been discussed on the exim-users > mailing lists various times and it always reports that there has been very > few security issues, no known exploits and a bunch of testimonials for > using Exim. Yup. I've been using Exim since way before it was part of Debian. I've *never* had a problem. > I use exim because: 1) simple, easy-to-understand syntax; 2) extremely > detailed documentation, FAQ and examples; 3) friendly mailing list; 4) > friendly author/developer; 5) many testimonials; 6) no known security > issues; 7) numerous capabilities, such as anti-relaying features, > filtering, mail routing control, etc.; 8) it was default with Debian :) > > I have read several testimonials of Exim like: "we use an old SparcStation > 20 to ship around 60,000 emails a day and according to the exim stats 98% > of those are shipped in under a minute." And "have used exim to cope with > the mail for freeserve (3 million users) and we never had any problems > with it." And "processed several hundred thousand messages a day across > 7000+ virtual domains." Well, another testimony is that I use Exim on the SMTP gateway machine for bnl.gov, and it uses an extensive filter to look for 'nasties', does the black-list blocking, along with our own long list of unsavory sites, subjects and content filtering. Nominal traffic is about 1.5-2.0 GB/day, each way. All mail for the site goes through this box. It's handled up to about 20GB in a single day, and the load on the box never went above .10. This is a PIII-500 with 512MB RAM. *Way* overkill for what it's handling. Someday in the near future (6-10 months) we'll be upgrading the WAN connection from OC-3 to OC-12. It may be a little more loaded at that point, but I doubt it. Tim -- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< << >> Tim Sailer (at home) >< Coastal Internet, Inc. << >> Network and Systems Operations >< PO Box 671 << >> http://www.buoy.com >< Ridge, NY 11961 << >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >< (631) 924-3728 << >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< << -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
