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Qmail Vs. Sendmail




On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Roman Shterenzon wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> There's some notes about qmail:
> 
> * Not a great deal speed improvement

measured, tested and proved to be faster than sendmail systems on the same
setup after an upgrade, and there are various reasons to explain that.

> * Lacks most of options sendmail has

gimme one option that sendmail has that you lack in Qmail which is not out
of use or breaks RFCs.

> * Doesn't REALLY improve security, though better than sendmail in this
> issue

then you are sugesting there are secutiry holes. well, there's a bounty of
quite a nice sum (over $1000 AFAIR) that has been waiting there for over
18 months or more (since version 1.00) for the person who will find a
security hole in it, go ahead and collect it, if you found such a hole.
let me remind you that Sendmail is now about 10 YO and is at the ninth
iteration of it's version 8, and still security fixes come at a rate of
3-4 a year.

> * not-so-compatible

with what? like other replyers here said, it conforms with the RFCs.
add-ons have been written to make it compatable with /etc/aliases and
.forward files. (but I never use any of them really)

> * Not used for serious businesses

tell that to hotmail and internic. they considdered themselves pretty
serious until your remark.

this was true up till 8 months ago (as well as quite a few university
sites), I haven't checked other sites yet.

> * Obscure for ex-sendmail users

for 15-30 minutes at most, like was posted before.

> So, I'll stick to sendmail meanwhile at work, and I already use VMAiler
> (pre alpha) at home, which is copletely useful.

I'm alergic to VMAILer for one reason alone, the guy who wrote it (Wieste
Venema) is an egocentric know-it-all with a mouth faster than his brain.
he knows a thing or too but talks "bli kisuy" about security and other
matters.


Finally, Roman. I sugest you also look at Exim. I know Qmail copied some
ideas from it, but never read anything about it save the fact that
cs.huji.ac.il is now running it after debating whether to install it or
Qmail.

btw, Exim guy at cs.huji: I have just switched ISPs here and my posts
bounce back since 208.206.213.25 does not reverse-resolve yet. please open
me an ACL for a few days until UUnet returns control to me. TIA