Re: weird telnet activity/qmail?
Miguel Cruz (mnc@diana.law.yale.edu)
Sat, 23 Jan 1999 22:15:25 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Chad Glendenin wrote:
> This reminds me: is it worth the trouble to switch to qmail for a personal
> workstation that pretty much only handles the emails from cron to root? Do y
ou
> think qmail's security is as much better than sendmail as they claim?
Well, if it never does anything but internal mail, then you can just block
off port 25 and worry about it much less.
On the other hand, I have been using qmail for some time now (about 2
years) and never had to make any changes to anything for security reasons.
I'd say that's pretty hands-off.
miguel