RE: POP3 and SMTP server for an ISP

["Grischa Schuering" <schuering@inity.de>]

sorry... i am quite new to debian.

I am looking for a mailsystem that can forward incoming mails via
ruleset to another host (on sendmail i user virtusertables). How can
this be done with exim.
you are talking quite a lot about gnu pop3d... what is the deb package
name ??

thanks

grischa

-----Original Message-----
From: tps@unslept.com [mailto:tps@unslept.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 6:13 PM
To: Jeremy C. Reed
Cc: Litzler Mih?ly; debian-isp@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: POP3 and SMTP server for an ISP


On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 08:42:04AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, [iso-8859-2] Litzler Mihály wrote:
> 
> > Okey, what do you think about the security of exim?
> 
> I couldn't find any Exim advisories or incident or Vulnerability notes
at
> CERT.

There are none.

> I found a July 1997 BugTraq posting for a very old version of Exim
(posted
> by Qmail's author).

Go figure. :)

> You can't really easily search the SecurityFocus website for Exim --
> because the headers are indexed AND many emails were sent by Exim :)
> 
> This subject of "security of exim" has been discussed on the
exim-users
> mailing lists various times and it always reports that there has been
very
> few security issues, no known exploits and a bunch of testimonials for
> using Exim.

Yup. I've been using Exim since way before it was part of Debian. I've
*never* had a problem.

> I use exim because: 1) simple, easy-to-understand syntax; 2) extremely
> detailed documentation, FAQ and examples; 3) friendly mailing list; 4)
> friendly author/developer; 5) many testimonials; 6) no known security
> issues; 7) numerous capabilities, such as anti-relaying features,
> filtering, mail routing control, etc.; 8) it was default with Debian
:)
> 
> I have read several testimonials of Exim like: "we use an old
SparcStation
> 20 to ship around 60,000 emails a day and according to the exim stats
98%
> of those are shipped in under a minute." And "have used exim to cope
with
> the mail for freeserve (3 million users) and we never had any problems
> with it." And "processed several hundred thousand messages a day
across
> 7000+ virtual domains."

Well, another testimony is that I use Exim on the SMTP gateway machine
for bnl.gov, and it uses an extensive filter to look for 'nasties', 
does the black-list blocking, along with our own long list of unsavory
sites, subjects and content filtering. Nominal traffic is about 1.5-2.0
GB/day, each way. All mail for the site goes through this box. It's
handled up to about 20GB in a single day, and the load on the box never 
went above .10. This is a PIII-500 with 512MB RAM. *Way* overkill for
what it's handling. 

Someday in the near future (6-10 months) we'll be upgrading the WAN
connection from OC-3 to OC-12. It may be a little more loaded at that
point, but I doubt it.

Tim

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