From: S. Highlander (fsbntwsdb.com)
Date: Fri Oct 14 2005 - 08:52:12 CDT

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralf Hildebrandt" <Ralf.Hildebrandtcharite.de>
To: <postfix-userspostfix.org>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: adding fetchmail to the mix?

> * S. Highlander <fsbntwsdb.com>:
> > good afternoon all,
> >
> > question: i am wondering if my mail system would be a little more
secure if
> > instead of forwarding mail from my gateway machine to my internal mail
> > server, i used a program like fetchmail on the internal mail server to
pick
> > up mail from the gateway machine.
>
> a) fetchmail is insecure, since it has a new security bug every month
> b) how can more software make the system more secure? More software,
> more bugs.
> c) This loses the envelope recipient.
> d) Why change a winning team?
> e) with your current setup, delivery is instantaneous, with fetchmail
> you need fixed intervals
>

this is what i was looking for. excellent points.

thank you for your response.

stu

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