Re: Fwd: getting postfix + sasl to work

[Hendrik Sattler <sattler2000@gmx.de>]

Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:

> :-).  Yes, I am the exim guru, but I'm also playing with postfix.  I
> wanted to better understand how it was designed and see how it's
> configuration/configurability compared.  I still have exim as the SMTP
> server on my machine so that I can reject spam during the SMTP session
> (using sa-exim), and currently postfix can't do that.  However, I also
> hvae the postfix package installed and postfix is /usr/sbin/sendmail
> and performing local (and remove) delivery only through that
> interface.  (by "local" here I mean /var/mail/$USER, not using
> maildrop or any other fancy MDA; exim is doing that)

Well, personally, I favor exim so far. Mailman integration, delivery to 
/home/$USER/Maildir and now TLS and SMTP-Auth makes it pretty nice. 
Although I wonder about plans on exim4 in official Debian. Any news?

Also, I am missing pam_exim in debian, as it allows to run exim as non-root 
and still use PAM for authentication.

But exim also has a weird thing: I wanted to make my ssl key only readable 
to root.cert and having exim's user 'mail' in group cert. However that does 
not work. Strange, isn't it? The .key and the .crt file needs to be in 
group mail to let exim access it. Too bad :-/
Any ideas?

HS