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Install qmail
Authored by: silas on Feb 25, '03 10:47:16AM
Another way to improve the security of sendmail is to remove it from your system and install qmail, the #2 MTA on the Internet, instead. qmail is a Mac user's mailer -- more secure, reliable, easy to configure, and robust than sendmail.

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Install qmail
Authored by: wyvern on Feb 25, '03 04:33:05PM

unfortunately, qmail is also very difficult to install. It's not by any means easy to use. It may be secure but it's needlessly complex... You have to create a bevy of users, plop a gaggle of files all over your system, and then start to configure the beast... what a pain! I tried for nearly a week to get qmail to work. When it still didn't, sendmail and its 30 mins of configuring looked awfully attractive, even if it is slow. Speed doesn't matter when it's just serving a few hundred messages per day.

I'm going to switch to postfix, I think, because sendmail does suck.



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