Have any of you set up Postfix in a professional environment and if so, what kind of success/failure have you experienced? I have some Sendmail experience but I have been experimenting with Postfix on a test server and I have found it rather easy to deploy, but I am unsure of its ability in large scale environment. Comments?
On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, FreeportWeb Debian Support Account wrote: > 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]
