Re: Secure Servers (SMTP, POP3, FTP)

From: David Goddard (goddard@acm.org)
Date: 02/12/01 

Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:10:08 +0000
From: David Goddard <goddard@acm.org>
To: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@hotmail.com>

On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Dominic Marks wrote:
...
> Mail Options:
> 1. Qmail - Secure, written for FreeBSD (Qwest?), Fast, Configurable

> 2. Sendmail - Industry standard, works fine, big user base
 
> 3. Postfix - Secure, quite light on system resources, growing support

I can't believe no-one's mentioned Exim (http://www.exim.org/) yet -
doddle to configure (particularly things like virtual domains) and as
far as I understand it pretty secure. I spent a while deliberating
between this and Postfix
for my servers but plumped for Exim after a short evaluation. Given
that I couldn't seperate them on the basis of security I went for Exim
on usability. I say install both on a test machine and give them a
whirl - but maybe someone here can offer a petter perspective on the
security comparison...

Dave

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