Re: what's the better mta?
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote:
>
> The problem with smail is that you are vulnerable to being used as a
> spam relay.
Unles you put something like Blackmail ( ftp.bitgate.com) in front of it.
> With sendmail, qmail or exim, I can turn that off. Here's
> a sample sendmail .mc file, which gets used with the m4 macros to generate
> your sendmail.cf... This includes spam rejection/relay protection. This
> spits out a *working* (no tweaking required) sendmail.cf, complete with
> the ability to do virtual hosts and rewrite outgoing addresses. It also
> replaces the Mprog mailer with smrsh, instead of bash, which takes care of
> a large portion of sendmail holes.
THe latest smail (not included with debian) has PLENTY of anti-relay
protection.
All that gibberish that you posted concerning rulesets is one of the main
reasons that I trashed sendmail after using for about a year.
If I had a smtp only site, I would use exim. The relay policy is very
clear and simple to configure. None of that &@%#%^&$##$**** $*(&^#$#
garbage that sendmail uses.
George Bonser
Why is it that the same people that tell us that manned space flight
is a waste of money also tell us that we have been visited by aliens?
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