Re: Secure email server setup
On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 08:34:33PM +0100, Jonathan Sélea wrote:
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> On 2018-01-15 00:19, Brian wrote:
> > On Sun 14 Jan 2018 at 16:43:53 -0500, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
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> >> On Sunday, January 14, 2018 02:26:03 PM Brian wrote:
> >>> On Sun 14 Jan 2018 at 12:49:46 -0500, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> >>>> On Sunday, January 14, 2018 10:36:40 AM J.W. Foster wrote:
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> I would not recommend having a emailserver on the same server as a
> website, because if the website is compromised the "hacker" can just use
> the mail() function
> to send emails in your name.
so can she/he if the mailserver is on a different host. That doesn't make
any difference.
> As other people already have said - do you really need emailserver of
> this kind?
This however is a valid question. A full functional mailserver requires
effort and administrative knowledge to setup properly. And your question
already hints that the latter is no there yet.
> And why is Thunderbird installed on that particular machine?
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> / Jonathan
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-H
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