Les Mikesell wrote:
> Susan Day wrote:
>
>> Hi;
>> I don't want sendmail. What's a good secure email server that I can yum?
>> I really only need smtp right now, but who knows what the future will bring?
>>
>
>
> Postfix is probably a reasonable choice, but I'm curious as to how you
> reached the decision that you don't want to use the standard,
> mostly-preconfigured tool without already knowing anything about the
> other choices. Sendmail may have a long history of exploits back in the
> day with it was monolithic and ran as root, but now it is probably the
> most carefully audited piece of code shipped in the distribution. The
> milter interface developed for sendmail (and now also implemented in
> postfix) lets you add functionality that wasn't designed in, so it is
> hard to imagine a mail job or environment that either couldn't handle.
>
>
I don't see sendmailX on Centos at the moment...do you? It is therefore
still monolithic as far as Centos is concerned.
postfix comes with mysql/postgresql support and with connection pooling
at that and which can be used directly in a lot of built-in features of
postfix. Unless the supporting stuff in the milters are as efficient as
what you can get in postfix, sendmail + milters might be hard pressed to
handle some environments that postfix can.
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