[CentOS] Sendmail

Sun Nov 6 01:46:20 UTC 2005
Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>

Am So, den 06.11.2005 schrieb Sam Drinkard um 2:05:

> I suppose there is no real compelling reason to use qpopper other than
> I've been using it for years with no problems, either security-wise or
> operational wise.  There were some 
[...]

> Sam

qpopper has a continuing, very doubtful history regarding security/bug
issues. Each new release comes with a major bug (often a new buffer
overflow). You better avoid that application. Too because it is not
provided by CentOS. Use dovecot - quick, easy to configure and shipping
with CentOS base.

Comment on your question about the MTA and MSA services by Sendmail: if
you explicitly set DAEMON_OPTIONS for the MSA or TLSMTA you too have to
explicitly set them for the MTA - else the MTA is disabled.
You can easily play around with it: selective activate and deactivate
DAEMON_OPTIONS for the services in sendmail.mc, rebuild the sendmail.cf
from it (make -C /etc/mail) and then look at the results by running
"grep DaemonPortOptions /etc/mail/sendmail.cf".

Alexander


-- 
Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773
legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html
Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp 
Serendipity 02:38:52 up 8 days, 39 users, load average: 0.04, 0.09, 0.12
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil
URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051106/6a1c7629/attachment-0005.sig>