It was thus said that the Great David Holland once stated:
>
> If you are feeling brave enough you can:
>
> Configure sendmail to handle your mail properly,
> Configure Spam Assassin, and MimeDefang to hook into your email, strip
> "bad" attachments, and scan attachments with various Linux virus
> scanners.
>
> The sendmail configuration is the worst part. I've still not quite got
> it working the way I want it to.
Skip sendmail. It's a walking security hole just waiting to happen.
Instead try postfix (
http://www.postfix.org/). The configuration is way
saner, and it comes with "sendmail" compatible programs so nothing else on
the system has to change (there's still a sendmail executable, a mailq
program, etc). And I think there are more options for anti-spam with
postfix (or at least, easier to integrate) than with sendmail.
-spc (I was finally conviced to switch after I think two sendmail
exploits in a row ... )
Received on Wed Feb 18 2004 - 19:42:40 GMT