On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 22:10 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: >On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 21:59 +0000, Carwyn Edwards wrote: >>How does the argument stack up against postfix? I've found postfix + >>procmail (optional) + dovecot + squirrelmail (optional) to be very easy >>to manage. > >I haven't had that much experience of postfix. One data point I'd like to add to this is that specifically in the Fedora context (i.e. outside of the general exim vs postfix debate), Postfix has the advantage in that its design (multiple independent mutually untrusting processes¹) allows a strong SELinux policy to be easily applied, further enhancing Postfix's already good security. Exim re-execs itself to drop privilege, but this doesn't work well with SELinux without source code changes (unwritten as of yet AFAIK) to determine which context to transition to. ¹ http://www.postfix.org/big-picture.html
