[WBEL-users] Postfix or Sendmail

[Joe Brouhard]

> However, this opinion is over 6 years old.  I too and examining them both
> now as I need to install new servers and need to find something for email.
> From my understanding (although I haven't done a whole lot of research
> recently), Sendmail has fixed all these security issues by making it more
> Postfix like and by running it as a non root process.  Someone can correct
> me if I am mistaken.  One of the things I like about Sendmail is that I
> quickly found a patch to allow it to store it's email in a DB - something
> I
> plan to do as I expect it to be easier to handle data replication and
> clustering using MySQL clustering (being released April 14).  I haven't
> found anything that will allow me to hook Postfix into a DB.
>

I recommend looking at http://www.high5.net/howto

This provides a way of setting up 'virtual email hosting" servers with a
Database thtat provides user login/password information that is passed
back and forth between postfix, mysql, SASL, and Courier...

-- 
Joe Brouhard
Chief of Information Services
Kansas City Open Source Consultants
jbrouhard@kcosc.com