Re: Q-Mail, Or How Paranoid Are We Today.

From: carlos@planetadj.com.br
Date: 02/26/02 

Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:21:44 -0300 (BRT)
From: <carlos@planetadj.com.br>
To: <stauph@hotmail.com>

Dear Mr.Walls ... Well... Qmail is very reliable MTA, however
it lacks on facilities such virtual domains. It stopped in
time. Second off, the source code is half open and *was*
maintained solely by a single man.
On the other hand it emerged a Patch Campaign to Qmail which
the newest facilities were ported to Qmail (such virtual
domains). Theses patches are not cumbersome to apply, and
enhances very much qmail.

I advise you 100% to use qmail, it's secure (more secure than
sendmail), fast (faster than sendmail), it's easy to build
mail cluster (easier and quicker than sendmail) and with the
proper patches it may do whatever any other MTA may do.

Cirello

> I recently moved from sendmail to qmail, and so far I'm
amazed at A>
> The ease of use of "qmail the easy way 1.51" B> The
annoyance of
> Maildir. My travels across the internet and to various
qmails sites
> tell of vast security promises and the like, and the
changelogs for
> qmail show there isn't much security vunerabilites, even
relaying
> isn't a trouble by default.
> ... But has anyone had any problems with it anyway?
>
> P.S. Yes, I've RTFM and used google. Just looking for any
lose ends.
> ;)
>
>
______________________________________________________________
___
> Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger:
http://messenger.msn.com

Relevant Pages

  • Qmail to Sendmail migration => life without qmail :-)
    ... This howto assumes that you have compiled and makeinstalled sendmail, ... Qmail is an MTA which uses specific form of database containing ... Now, user aliases are kept in domain directory, e.g. /MAIN/domainX.com/ ... Site-wide aliases and virtualusers are kept ...
    (comp.mail.sendmail)
  • Re: Newb questions
    ... I know BIND ... >> and sendmail are there but I keep hearing about potential security problems. ... to avoid qmail in favour of a postfix-based solution. ... It's also mostly unusable without different patches, ...
    (comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc)
  • Re: Email Server ammended..
    ... I have tried qmail, ... postfix as soon as i hit send on this email... ... Subject: Email Server ... > Zmailer, Smail3, Porcupine, Sendmail, Qmail, and Postfix I've done some ...
    (Security-Basics)
  • Re: linux box compromised: advice needed
    ... >>> stinkin' 0 from qmail does NOT prove it's any more secure. ... No. Sendmail has a long and glorious history of local and remote ... >> stapling new features onto it, ... >> that refuses to update their RedHat 4.2 print server for no reason I can ...
    (comp.os.linux.security)
  • Re: Newb questions
    ... I know BIND ... > and sendmail are there but I keep hearing about potential security problems. ... If you look at qmail you'll see that the ... Patches are required to compile it on just about any modern ...
    (comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc)