[TriLUG] Mail server questions

[Matt Pusateri]

Lisa,

Cannit is a sendmail milter, so it will return the results to sendmail
and then sendmail should hand things to procmail as the local delivery
agent.  I use mimedefang the open source version of cannit.  I highly
recommend keeping it, although sendmail doesn't bother me :)  And
contary to popular belief I don't believe it's nearly a insecure as it
used to be.  Also sendmail 8.13 has some really nice spam reducing
capabilites, such as greet pause.



Matt Pusateri


On Sun, June 26, 2005 8:08 pm, Lisa C Boyd said:
> 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.
>
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