[plug] MTA Comparison & Debian OpenSSH

[Leon Brooks]

Christian wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> I use sendmail at home. I'm not sure what folk mean by "resource-hog" in
>> this context - it's never drawn attention to itself unlike some other
>> software I use.

> The general consensus that I've heard is that sendmail is quite
> resource-intensive relative to the others.

Agree. PostFix (comes with mandrake 6.0 and 6.1, maybe RedHat 6.1??)
seems to address this to a great degree and is also much more secure
(e.g. componentised, only SUIDs root when it absolutely has to and then
for the minimum time possible).