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Recommend an email server? 2
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ericbrunson
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I'm very partial to Postfix, Very secure, fairly easy to configure, very popular and has loads of anti-spam features.
A lot of people profess qmail. I don't have any experience with it, but it is reknowned for its speed and security. The only downsides I've heard about it are that it is hard to integrate spam filters and virus scanners and slow to integrate new features.
A lot of people profess qmail. I don't have any experience with it, but it is reknowned for its speed and security. The only downsides I've heard about it are that it is hard to integrate spam filters and virus scanners and slow to integrate new features.
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BlindPete,
Just as one person's opinion, I'm a proponent of Qmail as a free-software email server.
Sendmail, while bundled with every *nix distribution, has had a plethora of security issues. As Qmail is not bundled by default with every *nix distribution, it's the 2nd most popular email server on the internet, and without Sendmail's constant security patches.
Integrating spam filtering and virus checking with Qmail is not as intuitive as I'd like, but once done, works like a charm.
So now you have two recomendations.
Wishdiak
Just as one person's opinion, I'm a proponent of Qmail as a free-software email server.
Sendmail, while bundled with every *nix distribution, has had a plethora of security issues. As Qmail is not bundled by default with every *nix distribution, it's the 2nd most popular email server on the internet, and without Sendmail's constant security patches.
Integrating spam filtering and virus checking with Qmail is not as intuitive as I'd like, but once done, works like a charm.
So now you have two recomendations.
Wishdiak
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Bottom line use what you feel comfortable with.
We've used Sendmail on all of our servers from day one, and haven't had one problem.
Do you need to do patches? Sure security patches are an unfortunate part of administrering a network.
Should you look at using something different becuse of it?
Hell no, not if you don't want to. If you were going to take that path.. then you'd need to find replacements for:
OpenSSL, ModSSL, Bind, Apache, Linux Kernel, Mozilla, QT, Gaim, libpng, Samba, PHP, syslogd, cvs, XFree86, procmail, pine, OpenOffice, GTK+, Gnome, sudo, KDE (need I go on?)
Hell QMail has had it's share of security problems as well
The fact there is a need for a patch shouln't concern you.. the timely maner in which a patch was produced should be.
I recommend you signup for security notifications from your Linux Dist., as well as from any third party apps (modssl etc) you install seperatly from the dist vendor.
Regards
KC
We've used Sendmail on all of our servers from day one, and haven't had one problem.
Do you need to do patches? Sure security patches are an unfortunate part of administrering a network.
Should you look at using something different becuse of it?
Hell no, not if you don't want to. If you were going to take that path.. then you'd need to find replacements for:
OpenSSL, ModSSL, Bind, Apache, Linux Kernel, Mozilla, QT, Gaim, libpng, Samba, PHP, syslogd, cvs, XFree86, procmail, pine, OpenOffice, GTK+, Gnome, sudo, KDE (need I go on?)
Hell QMail has had it's share of security problems as well
The fact there is a need for a patch shouln't concern you.. the timely maner in which a patch was produced should be.
I recommend you signup for security notifications from your Linux Dist., as well as from any third party apps (modssl etc) you install seperatly from the dist vendor.
Regards
KC
BlindPete,
The Windows 2000 Pro wrinkle does complicate things some. You could install a *nix distribution on it, reinstall Apache, and run Qmail or Sendmail or Postfix. If you prefer to continue running Windows 2000 Pro, you might want to inquire in the Windows 2000 forum.
Either way, best of luck.
Wishdiak
The Windows 2000 Pro wrinkle does complicate things some. You could install a *nix distribution on it, reinstall Apache, and run Qmail or Sendmail or Postfix. If you prefer to continue running Windows 2000 Pro, you might want to inquire in the Windows 2000 forum.
Either way, best of luck.
Wishdiak
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