[ale] pop3 server

[Greg]

Well, not to 
start a religious war ... but here is something off of the <A 
href="http://www.qmail.org">www.qmail.org site that is a comparison.  
The only exception is Sendmail with OpenBSD - it has been audited line for line 
for security and such, but has some features removed in order to make it more 
secure.
 
A book could be written about this topic, 
but it would be tedious reading. Here's a quick comparison of qmail with some of 
the most common UNIX MTA's.


  
  
    MTA 
    Maturity 
    Security 
    Features 
    Performance 
    Sendmailish 
    Modular 
  
    qmail 
    medium 
    high 
    high 
    high 
    addons 
    yes 
  
    Sendmail 
    high 
    low 
    high 
    low 
    x 
    no 
  
    Postfix 
    medium 
    high 
    medium 
    high 
    yes 
    yes 
  
    exim 
    medium 
    low 
    high 
    medium 
    yes 
    no 
  
    Courier 
    low 
    medium 
    high 
    medium 
    optional 
    yes 
Sendmailish means the MTA behaves like Sendmail in some ways 
that would make a switch from Sendmail to the alternative MTA more 
user-transparent, such as the use of .forward files, 
/etc/aliases, and delivery to /var/spool/mail.
Cameron Laird has a web page comparing these and other free and commercial 
MTA's at <A 
href="http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.mail.misc/MTA_comparison.html">http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.mail.misc/MTA_comparison.html.
As far as making a web server a mail server, I 
wouldn't, but I believe in single purpose servers and security above all 
else.  I also have some 486's around here I got for near free that I 
use.  However, those with a compelling reason might want to do it (like: I 
only have 1 box and 1 only).
Greg Canter
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  -----Original 
  Message-----From: Stephen Turner 
  [mailto:artic_knight at yahoo.com]Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 
  1:07 PMTo: ale at ale.orgSubject: [ale] pop3 
  serveri want to make a pop3 server in the same box with 
  apache, is this a bad idea? tips tricks? whats the best email server software?
  
  
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