2 questions on mail and domains

[Joseph C. Lininger]

Hello,
I have used both qmail and courier. You can find information on qmail at:

http://www.qmail.org

or

http://pobox.com/~djb

Qmail is relatively easy to set up and is highly secure. The only real 
problem I have with it is that you have to patch it to do just about 
everything. That includes SSL/TLS and SMTP authentication if you want that, 
which you most likely do.

As for courier, you can find the information on:

http://www.courier-mta.org

I can't really evaluate the security of this package because it is a 
relatively new player when compared to some of the others out there. I can 
say that it is very functional. It contains the SMTP server, as well as a 
pop3, imap, and webmail server.

I've also heard that postfix is pretty good, though I've never used it. I 
would recommend staying away from exim and sendmail for security reasons. In 
the case of exim, my security concerns are hear-say, so they may not be 
valid. However, I can make definite statements on the security of sendmail.
---
Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Krister Ekstrom" <crisekstrom at bredband.net>
To: "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 2:04 AM
Subject: 2 questions on mail and domains


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> Hi  speakup,
>
>  After struggling with the docs of Exim, which I didn't fully
>  understand, (to tell the truth, i felt quite stupid after reading
>  them) I ended up asking myself if Exim was the best MTA for me. This
>  in turn lead me to think that I should ask the following to the
>  list: What mail transports are people using and what would you
>  recommend to someone who wants a MTA that's easy to set up/configure
>  yet powerful? If recommending Exim after all, do any of you use a
>  version from a Debian package and if so, where should on dig to
>  configure the thing?
>  On a different but not entirely other subject: If i don't have my
>  own domain as of yet, what should my host name be? I assume i can't
>  have a name like "mymachine.isps.domain" cause that would be illegal
>  or something like that?
>  Thanks for any help!
>
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> /Krister
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