Hello, I have used both qmail and courier. You can find information on qmail at: http://www.qmail.org or http://pobox.com/~djb Qmail is relatively easy to set up and is highly secure. The only real problem I have with it is that you have to patch it to do just about everything. That includes SSL/TLS and SMTP authentication if you want that, which you most likely do. As for courier, you can find the information on: http://www.courier-mta.org I can't really evaluate the security of this package because it is a relatively new player when compared to some of the others out there. I can say that it is very functional. It contains the SMTP server, as well as a pop3, imap, and webmail server. I've also heard that postfix is pretty good, though I've never used it. I would recommend staying away from exim and sendmail for security reasons. In the case of exim, my security concerns are hear-say, so they may not be valid. However, I can make definite statements on the security of sendmail. --- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Krister Ekstrom" <crisekstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 2:04 AM Subject: 2 questions on mail and domains > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Hi speakup, > > After struggling with the docs of Exim, which I didn't fully > understand, (to tell the truth, i felt quite stupid after reading > them) I ended up asking myself if Exim was the best MTA for me. This > in turn lead me to think that I should ask the following to the > list: What mail transports are people using and what would you > recommend to someone who wants a MTA that's easy to set up/configure > yet powerful? If recommending Exim after all, do any of you use a > version from a Debian package and if so, where should on dig to > configure the thing? > On a different but not entirely other subject: If i don't have my > own domain as of yet, what should my host name be? I assume i can't > have a name like "mymachine.isps.domain" cause that would be illegal > or something like that? > Thanks for any help! > > - -- > /Krister > mailto:crisekstrom at bredband.net > Get pgp keys here: mailto:crisekstrom at bredband.net?subject=get_pgp_keys > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-nr2 (Windows XP) > > iD8DBQFAZ+aOODlJeoMTOQsRA4IoAJ4whze4VdLh4Lbg+6wxdHGkrFsteACeOxZn > AZL9CXmzWq6UHRpemDgcoPE= > =hgsY > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
