Re: why qmail is more secure, was: Mailing list performance

[Ronny Haryanto]

On 02-Aug-2000, Dave Sill wrote:
> 1) Postfix only uses a single uid. qmail uses six.

Why is using more than one uid better? What sort of security problem
would using one uid potentially pose?

> 2) Wietse's code is buggier than Dan's. Check the historical record.
> (To be fair, *everyone's* code is buggier than Dan's. :-)

Well, IMHO, nobody's perfect, period :). Although I'm sure Dan and
Wietse are two of the very best in the field.

> Postfix *can* be configured to run chrooted, which is a plus for
> it. But that doesn't outweigh the above.

Thanks for the insight.

Ronny