Depending on your needs, albiet scalability, security, performance, ease-of-use etc. I find qmail to be the best solution for a dependable and secure mail server.
qmail installs as a closed-relay by default, and if you follow the "Life with qmail" document, you'll have a mail system that you can depend on and won't have to worry about being "relayed". I've built many, many systems using qmail for my clients and customers, all of them are quite happy and have *zero* issues with relaying (or anything else for that matter). Some of these companies are using these mail systems with thousands of mail users, some are small SOHO businesses with only a handful. In both cases the customer has been quite happy with their mail system. Gary -----Original Message----- From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 6:14 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Mail Server -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 04:50:29AM -0400, DU wrote: > How do you setup a mailserver without becoming an open-relay? Use Exim, it's the easiest for a new admin to use (and a joy for old hats). In /etc/exim/exim.conf, you should have something along the lines of the below... # The setting below allows your host to be used as a mail relay by only # the hosts in the specified networks. See the section of the manual # entitled "Control of relaying" for more info. host_accept_relay = 127.0.0.1 : 192.168.0.0/16 > However with the release of Mozilla 1.0 I have become addicted to its mail > reader. I use imapd+sslwrap. To read email this is a great combo. However, > remotely I can't send mail with this setup. Look back in the last few days archives for how to set exim up for ASMTP. There's several methods. > I understand smtp servers can bet setup to use logon/passwds to accept outgoing > email. Is this a common approach? What else could I do? Is this a configuration > of exim or is this something else entirely? Is PAM somehow plugged into exim? Yes. Check the archive, search for exim and ASMTP. - -- Baloo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9HDbUNtWkM9Ny9xURAgdtAJwMYIncZ4IPNLZfGnzFxMX0XbHwOACcDX3v 9WkLdpEdO43lm+yuzzjdMvQ= =vJnR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.372 / Virus Database: 207 - Release Date: 6/20/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.372 / Virus Database: 207 - Release Date: 6/20/2002 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
