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The Security Architecture of Qmail (2004) [pdf]
- kjs3 7y agoI ran qmail for a long time in a lot of places and it was by and large a good thing. While I watched the sendmail folks periodically scramble to cover the vuln du jour debacle, there was never much that took the piss out of qmail. Unfortunately, the idiosyncratic license meant that I spent more and more time cobbling up a set of sources and patches that supported the latest email requirements and finally decided postfix was far less overhead with close to qmail security. The I decided life was too short to run my own mail server. Don't judge. :-)
- angry_octet 7y agoqmail is an excellent example of isolation and least priviledge security design. But I'd really like to hear how production systems used by major ISPs or gmail work.
- jlgaddis 7y agoYahoo! Mail ran qmail back in the day.