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Ive heard that sendmail is insecure, but it is also used very often. Do you know other mail-deamons which are more secure?

April 26, 2017heard insecure Secure sendmail Used

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Ive heard that sendmail is insecure, but it is also used very often. Do you know other mail-deamons which are more secure?

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There have been no known security weaknesses in sendmail as of version 8.9.3. Sendmail is quite powerful but not that easy to configure. Postfix and QMail are smaller, faster and possibly easier to configure, but from the security point of view there is no difference.