[PLUG] new guy with questions

Elliott Mitchell ehem at m5p.com
Wed Jun 28 04:17:53 UTC 2006


>From: Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> > Been hoping for a similar thing for SQL. I'd prefer to avoid a full DB on
> > my *desktop* machine.
> 
>    SQLite3?

Haven't looked. I was thinking more along the lines of a standard DB
interface library (ODBC?), and an implementation of that interface which
simply created and used Berkeley-DBs.

> > Is Qmail worthy? For a small site at least?
> 
>    Consider postfix. That's what I've been running the past seven years. Even
> I installed and configured it, and it's very secure.

I was more interested in worthy enough, to not get lumped with the people
who are afraid of Sendmail.

I'm going to have to dispute your assertion of "very secure" though. My
observation of the Debian security list has been that both Sendmail and
Postfix get bulletins around once every 9 months (often at nearly the
same time). During the same period Exim was averaging at least one
bulletin every 2-3 months, while Qmail didn't get any. I just looked at
that trend and wrote off Exim. Perhaps I should reevaluate it, but Qmail
still hasn't been hit and since I've switched that reputation still looks
good.


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