Hello! Clément Lassieur <clem...@lassieur.org> skribis:
> Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> writes: > >> Plan for a secure E-mail server >> >> The idea is to have a secure setup which can be replicated fast and >> parameterized - i.e., there will be installation options. We'll >> develop this so anyone can fire up a VPS instance and get a secure >> communications environment - especially when people are on one host >> and between hosts using encrypted channels. >> >> The plan is as follows: >> >> Phase 1 >> >> . postfix with some utilities (postgrey, spfmilter) >> . courier-imap >> . web mail server using imap >> >> Phase 2 >> >> . stunnel+sslh - for tunneling ssh/smtp/imap over port 443 >> >> Phase 3 >> >> . Spam/virus filters >> >> Phase 4 >> >> . web based user mail account management >> >> Phase 5 >> >> . mailman support >> >> Phase 6 >> >> . irc support >> . other messaging services >> >> Phase 7 >> >> . voice support - mumble? >> >> My server runs phases 1-3. > > I don't understand how your server can run phases 1 to 3, since Postfix > isn't packaged. I guess you are running a foreign distro, which means > you are still pretty far from you goal. > > My own mail server runs GuixSD with OpenSMTPD, which works very well (I > even have one client!). Is there an important feature OpenSMTPD is > missing? If so, we should package Postfix as a first step. > > Same question with Courier-Imap: why don't you use Dovecot? Its Scheme > configuration is very nice, and it seems much more popular than > Courier-Imap anyway. > > Also, I would push for a Jabber service rather than an IRC service, > because Jabber (XMPP) is decentralized. And there’s also a Prosody service already. It looks like with current GuixSD you could already get a simple ‘operating-system’ declaration with OpenSMPTD, Dovecot, and Prosody that does a big chunk of the job! Ludo’.
