On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 22:06 +0000, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > >Exim isn't particularly famous (in a good way) as far as MTAs go in > >terms of security. > > Exim has fairly good record. There's not really a lot of difference > between it and postfix from this POV. In fact even sendmail hasn't been > so bad recently as it used to be, but postfix and exim are probably > still ahead. It was Postfix which had the most recent erratum for the > open relay thing, wasn't it? No, not really. It was a third party patch added by some distros to their version of postfix. It was not included in the upstream code. > It's ease of use and documentation which tips the balance, I think. Have you looked at the postfix docs lately? I cannot comment on Exim at all, since I have never used it but the docs here: http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html seem pretty good to me. Regards, Tom Diehl tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx Spamtrap address mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx
