Postfix: A Secure and Easy-to-Use MTA

BSD Forums writes "On March 3rd, 2003, Internet Security Systems, in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security, issued a warning regarding a hole found in Sendmail. The warning, echoed by CERT, warned system admins that any version lower than 8.12.8 was vulnerable to a serious root exploit. Sendmail has a long history of security holes, most of which have been thoroughly documented on security sites. While Sendmail runs half the mail servers in the world, there are smaller and easier-to-use mail transfer agents (MTAs). Network administrator Glenn Graham demonstrates how Postfix gives you most of the power with a fraction of the pain."

Comments

Re:heh.

[grendel_x86]

Yes, they do, like spreading FUD, unnecessary panic, and wasting a crap-load of $$.

SMTP

[FrostedWheat]

SMTP is a fairly simple protocol, so why are there so many security problems with mail servers? Am I missing something obvious?

Re:Or try qmail - unbroken since v1.03 (1998)

[ideut]

Dan is such an abrasive prick that I just couldn't bring myself to use his software (the same can be said of Theo and OpenBSD).

Theo won their massive flamewar tho. (see link in sig)

Re:Or try qmail - unbroken since v1.03 (1998)

[gfilion]

I've considered qmail a few times, but Dan is such an abrasive prick that I just couldn't bring myself to use his software (the same can be said of Theo and OpenBSD).

Let me guess, you're the kind of guy who's gonna vote for Mary Carey as the next California Governor, aren't you?

I wonder how much she would charge to have a picture of her posted on qmail's web site saying: "I dig qmail admins!"

Re:Panther / Mac OS X 10.3 (11?) will use Postfix

[Hatta]

You have to pay for a security fix? fuck that