Subject: Re: Mail server
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From: <>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/08/1999 11:05:10
>Sendmail is THE program to handle mail. It is not easy to configure but
>there is nothing better.

uhm... IMO, Sendmail is a security hole with the useful side effect of =
mail exchange.  It supports way more than most places need anymore, it's =
hell to configure (ie it's hard to have any confidence that it's working =
right)...  it's slow, even though it was originally built to run on slow =
machines (hence the hideous config file - easy to internalise).

i replaced it with Exim <URL:http://www.exim.org/> for an ISP once.  Exim =
just about dropped into place (Majordomo was the only thing that gave =
trouble; Exim may be a bit more POSIX about stderr or something), worked =
well, it was easy to get the spam blocking i needed...


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