SUGGESTON FOR: HIGH END MAIL SERVER

[Stephen Carville]

Res wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Robert Canary wrote:
> 
>> security wrote:
>>> Robert Canary:
>>>> Huh?  What security holes??
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19714
>> fixed 8.13.8, but like so what.  Sendmail spawns new processes.  DOS 
>> one process and another will open for the next mail request. For 
>> sendmail you can only DOS the spawn you opened.
>>
> 
> They also seem to forget that sendmail accounts for 60% of the worlds 
> MTA, qmail probably 35% and the rest 5%, now when postfix grows to a 
> large userbase, its going to be a sure thing many bugs and dangerous 
> security holes will be found.

Here's an article from O'Reilly that suggest a somewhat different 
distribution.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2007/01/05/fingerprinting-mail-servers.html

-- 
Stephen Carville <stephen at totalflood.com>
Systems Engineer
Land America