[Dovecot] how secure is Dovecot when exposed to the Internet?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Aug 10, 2009, at 2:55 AM, Florin Andrei wrote:

> My question is: how reliable is Dovecot in such a setup? I am not  
> talking about encryption (protecting the traffic between server and  
> client). I am talking about having the daemon exposed to anything  
> coming in from the Internet, buffer overflows and stuff like that.
>
> What's the security history of this software in situations like this?

http://dovecot.org/security.html