On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:15:07 -0500 Jonathan Vanasco <jvanasco@???> wrote:
> well, exim also doesn't have the vulnerabilities that give
> security-conscious people a reason to toss and turn at night.
> postfix, on the other hand, was designed with security first.
since this discussion, i've been looking for a way to phrase this that's fair
to both pieces of software.
postfix:
1) has a carefully crafted security model
2) is newer and perhaps less mature as a result
3) does not offer quite the extensibility of exim
exim:
1) does not have a security model in the postfix/qmail sense,
but is generally well coded and well thought out
2) is quite mature
3) is extremely flexible
both are fine pieces of software; when i adapted exim, postfix was
still vmail and was still pretty primitive. if i had to make the choice
today, i have no idea what i'd do.
richard
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