RE: Mail Server

[Jeff Hood <jeffh@satellink.net>]

Have any of you set up Postfix in a professional environment and if so,
what kind of success/failure have you experienced? I have some Sendmail
experience but I have been experimenting with Postfix on a test server and
I have found it rather easy to deploy, but I am unsure of its ability in
large scale environment. Comments?






On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, FreeportWeb Debian Support Account wrote:

> Depending on your needs, albiet scalability, security, performance,
> ease-of-use etc.  I find qmail to be the best solution for a
> dependable and secure mail server.
> 
> qmail installs as a closed-relay by default, and if you follow
> the "Life with qmail" document, you'll have a mail system that
> you can depend on and won't have to worry about being "relayed".
> 
> I've built many, many systems using qmail for my clients
> and customers, all of them are quite happy and have *zero* issues
> with relaying (or anything else for that matter).
> 
> Some of these companies are using these mail systems with thousands
> of mail users, some are small SOHO businesses with only a handful.
> In both cases the customer has been quite happy with their mail
> system.
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Johnson [mailto:baloo@ursine.dyndns.org]
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 6:14 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Mail Server
> 
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> On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 04:50:29AM -0400, DU wrote:
> > How do you setup a mailserver without becoming an open-relay?
> 
> Use Exim, it's the easiest for a new admin to use (and a joy for old
> hats).  In /etc/exim/exim.conf, you should have something along the
> lines of the below...
> 
> # The setting below allows your host to be used as a mail relay by only
> # the hosts in the specified networks. See the section of the manual
> # entitled "Control of relaying" for more info.
> 
> host_accept_relay = 127.0.0.1 : 192.168.0.0/16
> 
> > However with the release of Mozilla 1.0 I have become addicted to its mail
> > reader. I use imapd+sslwrap. To read email this is a great combo. However,
> > remotely I can't send mail with this setup.
> 
> Look back in the last few days archives for how to set exim up for
> ASMTP.  There's several methods.
> 
> > I understand smtp servers can bet setup to use logon/passwds to accept
> outgoing
> > email. Is this a common approach? What else could I do? Is this a
> configuration
> > of exim or is this something else entirely? Is PAM somehow plugged into
> exim?
> 
> Yes.  Check the archive, search for exim and ASMTP.
> 
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> Baloo
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