RE: Debian GNU/Linux as email & DNS server

["Maarten Vink" <vink@interstroom.nl>]

Try using exim. Newer versions of exim (try the one from "testing" for
example) support authentication; if you need an example config file just let
me know.

If you install a newer version of apt, you'll have the ability to specify a
"target" (i.e. stable, testing, unstable) to get packages from; so just list
both stable and testing in your sources.list and add apt::Default-Release
"stable" to your apt.conf. Apt will get packages from "stable" by default,
and with apt-get -t testing you'll get newer packages from testing.

If I remember correctly, either testing or unstable offers a packages called
kernel-image-2.2.20-udma100-ext3 which has ext3 support built in; upgrading
your filesystems from ext2 to ext3 can be done on an active filesystem,
without rebooting, so getting a journaling filesystem to work is easy.

Regards,

Maarten Vink

-----Original Message-----
From: Davi Leal [mailto:david.leal@ene.es]
Sent: dinsdag 4 december 2001 12:13
To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
Subject: Debian GNU/Linux as email & DNS server


Hi all,

We are going to use a debian box as email and DNS server. The goal is
duplicate the functionality of a host which is using sendmail 8.8, xinetd
(pop3) & bind. I thought to use:

    Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3 (potato):
        sendmail 8.9.3, postfix, or ...
        xinetd (pop3: qpopper 2.53 instead of ipopd 4.7c)
        bind 8.2.3

However we want to add SMTP AUTH support which sendmail 8.9.3 does not
supply.

A friend advice me use postfix, which he says is easier  than sendmail to
configure it. However, the potato postfix version is too old. Anyway I  have
found a DoS alert about postfix < 20011115 today. It does not seem good yet.

The potato sendmail version is old too and does not support SMTP AUTH
(http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html).

Must I use potato with some packages upgraded to woody?.
Must I use woody instead of potato?.
What is the state of woody as ISP distribution (email&dns server)?.


Note: I have choosen debian as default option due to its 'apt-get' utility.
It is easy install the automatic system of fixing security bug using the
proper debian server, althought I think debian does not offer installation
on a Journaling FS or a software RAID.


Davi


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