Re: [MLUG] Critical Vulnerability in Sendmail and a SnortVulnerability

[Mikhail Kovalenko <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Mikhail Kovalenko wrote:
>>It there anything that sendmail can do that nothing else can?
> 
> I have no idea.  I don't use it because it's better than something else.
> It's just the only thing I know.
> 
> What do you use?  Is it qmail?  Is it hard to install?  Tell me more, if
> you have a minute, because I'm interested in making a change if it isn't
> going to take me all day to install the new program.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Mike

I use qmail with mbox support and stock imap on one machine and postfix with 
Courier imap on another. Neither of them are particularly hard to install, 
postfix even comes with RedHat now. Qmail has about a million add-ons that 
modify its behavior any way imaginable; some of them are rather hard to locate 
and/or install since none of them are part of the standard source package from 
Dan Bernstein. At least that has been my experience. However, once you get 
things running, it Just Works(TM) and is rock-solid.

Postfix, IMO, is much easier to configure and it has better options for 
various filtering and spam protection, but I haven't played with it as much 
yet. It also Just Works(TM) almost right out of the box so I leave it alone :)

Mike, I don't know if you can switch your e-mail system in a day, though. 
Surely it would take a little planning first. Qmail, for example, defaults to 
Maildir support rather than mbox, so does postfix, but both can be made to 
work with mbox as well. There's a conversion script that moves your mail from 
mbox to Maildir, but beware -- it didn't work for me without slight editing.

-- 
MK

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