Re: MTA security
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:32:17PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> >From a security standpoint, how does exim compare to sendmail? What about
> postfix?
>
> It appears that exim is Debian's default MTA, which is why I've run it
> before and it's what I'm most familiar with. Now I've inherited a network
> with several sendmail installations. I wouldn't consider arbitrarily
> changing MTAs just for the sake of changing them, but I'm going to be
> moving the servers onto new hardware, which brings up the question of
> whether to reinstall sendmail on the new boxes or put in something else.
> I'd like to go with exim, but I'm not entirely convinced that it would
> be a good choice for functionality and security.
I never used exim so I can't comment on that. Postfix was written by
Wietse Venema (also by WV: tcp-wrappers, portmapper(s), satan) and is/was
also known as IBM Secure Mailer at one point. From security standpoint,
this puts postfix to the top of the list (IMO, YMMV and all that).
And it's very easy to configure.
Dima
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