I think you'll find that when it comes to configuring things that are slightly out of the ordinary pretty much any MTA is easier to configure than sendmail. While sendmail can be very powerful in that it will do pretty much anything, having to deal with m4 and sendmail.cf can very easily turn nightmarish. And yeah - as you say, the legacy bugs and holes have long since been patched. To say otherwise is similar to recommending users not run bind because there were exploits for it back in bind4 that allowed attackers to gain root access. :-) -- Steve. On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Geofrey Rainey <Geofrey.Rainey@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Sure but I think most of those legacy bugs have been long resolved. > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Francisco José Márquez Gómez > Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2011 8:48 p.m. > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: how to configure qmalil on rhel5 > > Sendmail has a long history with bugs and security problems (this say > the legend, I never used it). > > Postfix is probably the most updated and with an active development MTA > at this moment. > > I love qmail, but I recognize that probably is not the best solution for > a new e-mail server, especially if the sysadmin didn't use it never. > > Regards, > F.J > > El 22/03/2011 22:14, Geofrey Rainey escribió: > > What about Sendmail as an MTA? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Johan Booysen > > Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2011 3:55 a.m. > > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > > Subject: RE: how to configure qmalil on rhel5 > > > > There are some handy postfix howto's to be found here: > > http://www.linuxmail.info/postfix-howtos/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Trutwin, Joshua > > Sent: 22 March 2011 14:37 > > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > > Subject: RE: how to configure qmalil on rhel5 > > > >> By other hand, maybe you should consider based your mail server in > > other > >> MTA, for example postfix. > > I will second this - I've used qmail for many years, really like it, but > > it is getting more and more difficult to run on newer servers. Postfix > > is an excellent alternative and certainly a very secure/stable MTA - > > with all (most?) of the features you'll need/want out of the box. Qmail > > with extra features, even something basic like SMTP Auth, TLS, SMTPS > > will require patching. > > > > Josh > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > ========================================================== > For more information on the Television New Zealand Group, visit us > online at tvnz.co.nz > ========================================================== > CAUTION: This e-mail and any attachment(s) contain information that > is intended to be read only by the named recipient(s). This information > is not to be used or stored by any other person and/or organisation. > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
