Re: Email Servers
From: Aaron (aamehl_at_bezeqint.net)
Date: 03/04/04
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To: fedora <fedora-list@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 18:57:57 +0200
I replied to the wrong email,
thanks for the advice, I had webmin on Mandrake.
Aaron
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 15:08, Paul Dubinsky wrote:
> At 02:43 AM 3/4/2004, you wrote:
>
> > Message: 7
> > Subject: email servers
> > From: Aaron <aamehl@bezeqint.net>
> > To: fedora <fedora-list@redhat.com>
> > Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 07:40:28 +0200
> > Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have been experiencing email problems, I found out from a friend
> > that
> > my ISP has changed a lot of settings (due to the various worms and
> > viruses.
> >
> > He setup his own mail server on his doze box. I thought to do the
> > same
> > so when I installed FC1 I checked email server.
> >
> > But I still have no clue what I installed I gather sendmail.
> >
> > For a newbie is the a good choice or should I be using something
> > else.
> >
> > This is more a get my feet wet experience than anything else, but I
> > do
> > want to come out of this with some 'email servering' skills and a
> > system
> > that works.
> >
> > suggestions
> >
> > thanks
> > Aaron
> >
>
> Sendmail and/or Postfix is installed. First, though, I would install
> webmin, the browser based linux admin program. It's available in a
> no-arch rpm that works fine on FC1 from http://webmin.org . It helps
> you avoid mucking about in the conf files which for Sendmail and
> Postfix can be *very* dense and intimidating.
>
> I have used both Sendmail and Postfix. I started with Sendmail and
> then moved to Postfix for security reasons - Sendmail's security
> history has been checkered to say the least. Postfix was written to
> tighten up the security problems.
>
> As suggested you have to get the O'Reilley book for Sendmail or the
> SAMS book for Postfix. I'm sure you can get either up without the
> printed reference but I doubt that you'll know much when you're done.
> Note that the Postfix book is about a third the size of the Sendmail
> book. That should tell you something.
>
> Beware that both can set you up as an open relay with a default
> install if you're not careful. That means that you could become an
> outgoing mail server for every spammer in the world. After you get
> running your first stop should be http://www.ordb.org/ to test your
> install to see if it is an open relay. If it is, you'll get guidance
> on how to close it.
>
> Good luck and enjoy,
> Paul
>
>
>
> "We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do,
> and we seem to do it about every ten minutes."
> J. William Fulbright , quoted in Time (New York, Feb. 4,
> 1952).
>
>
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