On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Lucas Albers wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Martin Stricker wrote: > > > >> > >> Well, I could rephrase that into "What does postfix give you that > >> sendmail [replace with any other decent MTA] does not?" *grin* Different > > > > With sendmail you get to join the exploit of the month club. That was my > > reason > > for switching several years ago and I have never looked back. > > > I've switched almost all my machines from sendmail to postfix. > I only run sendmail on our mail mail server, because it has the best spam > filtering. Nah!! Postfix + spamassassin + amavis-new is the best spam filtering combination I know of. Spamassassin is much easier to setup to work with postfix than sendmail. > The next version of postfix supports 5xx error code rejection of spam or > virus's. The current version does not. But if you have a high volume mail server you are likely to have problems. > I onced looked for any listed exploits on postfix, via the changelogs, and > vulnerability websites, and i could not find a SINGLE exploit. To date nor could I. Even Weitse says it is only a matter of time so do not get too comfortable. ;) -- ......Tom Registered Linux User #14522 http://counter.li.org tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx My current SpamTrap -------> mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
