Re: Email Server ammended..
From: Jeremy (jeremy_cassidy@mindlink.bc.ca)Date: 08/15/02
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From: "Jeremy" <jeremy_cassidy@mindlink.bc.ca> To: "Chris Berry" <compjma@hotmail.com>, <security-basics@securityfocus.com> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:39:15 -0700
Heres my opinions:
I have tried qmail, i didnt much like it... i was extensivly using sendmail,
which is pretty good, if you secure well.
I have since moved to postfix on one server and notice a huge difference in
speed and funtionality.... i will be transferring my other 3 servers to
postfix as soon as i hit send on this email... by the way... webmin is a
great way to administer your mail servers and any other servers you are
looking at. No matter what people tell you, webmin is secure if you firewall
it to everyone else but your ip in both the login page and your
iptables/ipchains.
Jeremy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Berry" <compjma@hotmail.com>
To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 5:54 PM
Subject: Email Server
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> I'm looking at installing a linux based email server in our network.
> (was going to get exchange because we're mostly a microsoft shop, but as
> usual, no budget available. Working on the microsoft thing, finally got
> OpenOffice working, and I'm looking at WINE next.) Now that I've been
> looking at some of the options, I'm impressed with the available
> features. I started out by trying to find all of the available email
> programs (MTA's to be precise) and came up with this list: Courier, Exim,
> Zmailer, Smail3, Porcupine, Sendmail, Qmail, and Postfix I've done some
> research and it appears that the vast majority of people use Sendmail,
> Exim, Qmail, and Postfix. I'm light on linux knowledge (although my last
> project, the dhcp aware router is now working well) so having some
> community support is definitely important. Sendmail use seems to be
> declining because of security issues, and it looks like the best choice
> would be either Qmail or Postfix, but I'd like to get some imput if anyone
> out there has an opinion or some advice. What do you think I should use,
> and why?
> Our basic criteria is that it should a)Have a reasonable admin
> interface (if you think vi is the best thing since sliced bread you're
> probably not on the same wavelength as me), b)Secure, c)Good at blocking
> spam (either by itself or with add-ons), d)Open source for cost reasons,
e)
> Relatively fast. In addition it looked like pretty much everyone was
> using procmail for their LDA, anything else I should be considering?
> I'm going to be building a dmz to put this thing in, besides patching
> the OS and programs I'll be using, turning off unused daemons, is there
> any particular thing I should do to keep from getting rooted six ways from
> sunday while I'm learning?
>
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