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Re: Mail server for linux
Amos Shapira wrote:
>
> On Tue, February 9 1999, Isaac Aaron <iaaron@internet-zahav.net> wrote:
> |I need a good solution for SMTP/POP3 server for linux.
> |
> |Is sendmail any good?
>
> Pretty good. It used to be considered relativelly insecure but not
> quite anymore.
>
> Also it used to be considered hard to configure but the (now old) .m4
> macros let you play with it very conveniently while still maintaining
> the option to delve deep into the old-style config files if you need
> to.
>
> |Suggestions?
>
> I switched to Qmail mainly for covenience (running an ISP with
> multiple virtual domains and virtual users off a MySQL database) and
> security and found it to be much faster.
It's actually much more safer than sendmail and do not requires a Ph.D
to configure it. It can do almost all thinks that sendmail does except
spread root access to world :))
Regards,
Antonio
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