[TriLUG] Mail server questions

[Lisa C Boyd]

Sam Folk-Williams wrote:

>Is this a production server? If you can handle some downtime, this
>would be a great opporunity to upgrade to postfix from sendmail --
>much easier to configure and generally more secure.
>
It is a production server but seeing as how I've hosed it really is going to have some downtime anyway :) On F3 is it relatively easy to install postfix?

>IIRC, dovecot has pretty minimal config options so I'd be curious what
>kind of trouble it is giving you...
>
Dovecot at first was not letting other users read their mail. It would let me access things perfectly, but not other users and as far as I know, we were all setup the same (same kind of mailboxes, etc.). So I added their home directories into Dovecot's preferences to be accessed although it says in the config file this move is not the greatest of security moves.

>Does this help at all?
>
What you said makes perfect sense. I'm thinking as long as there are some competent people on the list tonight I might just go ahead and make the move to postfix and courier :)


My only concern right now is losing mail. Last Wednesday I download mb2md to translate all my mboxes to maildirs. Now I think I have both in my directory but when I tried to run it in another user's home directory as that user, it gave me an error saying it couldn't access *my* /var/spool/mail/file instead of the user's mail file. So I'm really kinda confused but it looks like I just need to back up and take it one step at a time.


Stay tuned for more questions :)

Lisa B.