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Re: [PLUG] Re: machines (and parts) to a good home
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On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 18:17, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > I'd recommend postfix, personally.
>
> Why postfix over exim?
Postfix is a drop-in replacement for sendmail. And it's config file
(singular) is human-readable, and doesn't need to be run through any
macro processor. Plus there's never been a postfix security exploit.
But mostly it's because it's what I use. :-) Here, and at work. I
believe Mike Toren uses it, too. And the author, Wietse Venema, is a
well-known security expert.
>
>
> > Why the UUCP, BTW? Haven't heard of anyone using that in a number of
> > years now.
>
> History. Before I had reasonably reliable DSL, I used uucp. Then
> when I got DSL I just moved uucp to an ssh tunnel over DSL. Works
> well enough. Except at times like this.
OK
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