[ale] pop3 server
Greg
runman at telocity.com
Thu Feb 21 14:11:04 EST 2002
Well, not to
start a religious war ... but here is something off of the <A
href="http://www.qmail.org">www.qmail.org site that is a comparison.Â
The only exception is Sendmail with OpenBSD - it has been audited line for line
for security and such, but has some features removed in order to make it more
secure.
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A book could be written about this topic,
but it would be tedious reading. Here's a quick comparison of qmail with some of
the most common UNIX MTA's.
MTA
Maturity
Security
Features
Performance
Sendmailish
Modular
qmail
medium
high
high
high
addons
yes
Sendmail
high
low
high
low
x
no
Postfix
medium
high
medium
high
yes
yes
exim
medium
low
high
medium
yes
no
Courier
low
medium
high
medium
optional
yes
Sendmailish means the MTA behaves like Sendmail in some ways
that would make a switch from Sendmail to the alternative MTA more
user-transparent, such as the use of .forward files,
/etc/aliases, and delivery to /var/spool/mail.
Cameron Laird has a web page comparing these and other free and commercial
MTA's at <A
href="http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.mail.misc/MTA_comparison.html">http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.mail.misc/MTA_comparison.html.
As far as making a web server a mail server, I
wouldn't, but I believe in single purpose servers and security above all
else. I also have some 486's around here I got for near free that I
use. However, those with a compelling reason might want to do it (like: I
only have 1 box and 1 only).
Greg Canter
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-----Original
Message-----From: Stephen Turner
[mailto:artic_knight at yahoo.com]Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002
1:07 PMTo: ale at ale.orgSubject: [ale] pop3
serveri want to make a pop3 server in the same box with
apache, is this a bad idea? tips tricks? whats the best email server software?
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