[Sheflug] Re: Mail server

[Richard Ibbotson <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Richard

> They do?
> That sounds.... errrr.. less than correct to me.
> Sure Sendmail has a long history of it, and Exim has had it's
> problems. But Postfix? being known as one of the (along with Qmail)
> most secure MTA's around, and with no serious (or even not so
> serius bugs) that I can remember right now.

I get loads of e-mail all the time from people who use MTAs at home.  
They constantly tell me that they are being hacked through BT's 
exchange through a dialup connection.  Mostly to do with Sendmail and 
more recently the Exim break ins.

Most of the security sites that I've seen on the net are to do with 
large servers that are always connected.

The home dialup user is not catered for.  We *do_not* form a part of 
the world of the system admin.  I've seen loads of comments on the 
net that say that the dialup user can " go frig ".

End of story.


Thanks

-- 
Richard
___________________________________________________________________

Sheffield Linux User's Group - http://www.sheflug.co.uk . 
To unsubscribe from this list send mail to 
shef-lug-request@list.sheflug.org.uk with the word
"unsubscribe" in the body of the message. 

  GNU the choice of a complete generation.