[H-GEN] Replacement?

[Rick Phillips]

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> > Security is a major issue. Setuid binaries - especially
> sitting on an
> > open port ala older versions of sendmail - make me uncomfortable.
>

Yes, I feel a religious war coming on.

I use qmail.  Why - because a guru who I respect said that it was the
easiest to set up and it was supposedly, yet to be broken (security wise).
Easiest to set up was what attracted me as a dabbler with only a rudimentary
knowledge.  I have to agree that the setup WAS easy and I now have 4 virtual
domains hosted on my server along with EZMLM mailing lists.  All were a no
brainer if one followed the instructions.

The machine handles about 300 emails a day for the 4 domains on an old
machine built from scrap (128Mb RAM, AMD K6 II, no keyboard, FDD, mouse or
monitor), loving called "shitbox", sitting behind a new Red Hat Satellite
Gateway/firewall box.

I have had no experience in setting up other MTA's but this will do me fine.
Configuration is also a no brainer - it goes - it_just_goes!!  Qmailadmin is
web based and makes it all a snap to administer domains, users, lists.

Regards,

Rick Phillips

> Postfix refuses to run as root.  The install instructions
> talk about setting
> up a separate user ID/account for Postfix to run under.
>



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