-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> We're now running a little pentium box in the office as a mailserver > running sendmail. > its running potato with the security.debian.org upgrades, all > packages installed via apt-get, its pretty much a base install with > sendmail, perl, dnsutils and sysutils added. > > a few questions: > > a) are there any further security precautions we should take? our IP > block from the telco is frequently scanned by unpleasant people. Without knowing more about your particular setup I can only give a generalization: protect any and all computers on your netblock with a packet filtering firewall of some sort. > b) the default mailq time on sendmail was 10 minutes, we've shortened > that to 2 minutes. Is the 10 minute default arbitrary or there for a > good reason? I dunno - other people should be able to answer. If you don't have load problems running the queue that often I say go for it. > c) for the record would anyone like to take this opportunity to tell > me why exim would be prefereable to sendmail? 1) exim is easier to configure 2) exim has more functionality in some areas (but less in others - I've heard rumors that one can get sendmail to play tic-tac-toe via email using only sendmail.cf), particularly regarding queue management (sendmail has none). - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC GPG key id: 50DE1CFC GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6BlWo/ZTSZFDeHPwRApUFAJ9FwcZN9Bstgs7oTTy47XmYT3zbYgCgx++Z t0tn2t0khNCfP3gKZCC5cR8= =n4dF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
