[TriLUG] Mail server questions

[Jeff Groves]

Matt is correct.  Sendmail is quite secure and feature rich.

Additionally, mimedefang allows you to hang a large variety of spam and 
virus control tools off of it with very little effort.

Thanks,

Jeff G.

Matt Pusateri wrote:

>Lisa,
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>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.
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>Matt Pusateri
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>On Sun, June 26, 2005 8:08 pm, Lisa C Boyd said:
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>>Sam Folk-Williams wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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?
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>>>IIRC, dovecot has pretty minimal config options so I'd be curious
>>>what
>>>kind of trouble it is giving you...
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>>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.
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>>>Does this help at all?
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>>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 :)
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>>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.
>>
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>>Stay tuned for more questions :)
>>
>>Lisa B.
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