On Sunday, Jul 13, 2003, at 19:38 US/Central, David Phillips wrote: > The code for the core part of OpenSSL has almost twice as lines as > qmail. > It has also had several security holes. Do you really want to stuff > all of > that into the SMTP server? Actually yes i would. Either way the code is open for peer review. > Due to qmail's modularity, you can add SMTP AUTH or TLS without > modifying > qmail-smtpd: Why when my choice of smtp does it all. And does it well. And does it safely. And doesn't create additional administration overhead. > http://www.suspectclass.com/~sgifford/smtp_auth/ > http://www.suspectclass.com/~sgifford/stunnel-tlsproxy/ > Additional pieces means more to update, and more to configure, and more to maintain. No thanks. I update my smtp server in one fell swoop. I may yet evaluate postfix. We shall see. > You might also take an alternate approach: replace qmail-smtpd with a > different SMTP server: > > http://untroubled.org/mailfront/ > > -- > David Phillips <david at acz.org> > http://david.acz.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Ben Lutgens System Administrator, Server Wizard, Email Guru US Admins, Inc _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list