On Saturday 08 April 2006 18:32, Doofus wrote: >S. Keeling wrote: >>In linux.debian.user, you wrote: >>> Hi there Got this from my ISP the other day: >>> >>> We have been forced to take your server off line, since your >>> server is performing phishing from your secondary IP address >>> xxx.xxx.xxx.224. >>> >>> That IP address was one [of] my secondary IP's, using Debian Sarge, >>> have iptables firewall, using qmail as the mail server .. >> >>"aptitude install exim4" should get rid of that insecure piece of >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] qmail for you. Alternatives include Postfix, ssmtp, and >> even >> Sendmail among others. "aptitude search smtp" >> >>Google "qmail phish" > >I'm no expert on the subject but I'm wondering what your rather > sweeping statement is based on. > >Your google suggestion returned one result unrelated to this > discussion. > >However, google hits for: > >+qmail +phish = 15200 >+sendmail +phish = 41800 >+exim +phish = 54700 > > >There seems to be no shortage of people out there who say qmail is far >and away the most secure MTA avaiable (not to say the fastest). While >these google searches are hardly quantitative, the MTA/phish results >above certainly lean that way.
I am in this same camp. The only time we ever had a qmail server compromised, it was on a RH6.2 machine with the buffer overflow hole in named that one could drive a large truck through. And that wasn't qmails fault by any stretch. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
