On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 05:54:18PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > On 09/08/18 17:23, Ken M wrote: > > If you've never run a mail server before but are familiar with OpenBSD, > please do go the OpenBSD route. > > Setting up and running a mail service involves learning a few skills. If > you already manage DNS for your domain(s) I suppose you have a head start. > > Anything that comes as part of OpenBSD or packaged for OpenBSD will come > with sensible defaults. Please do yourself and the rest of the world a > favor and read up properly on the effects of anything you do change. A > lot of stuff that appears on the face of it to be trivial actually isn't. > > I've written quite a few pieces on mail and related topics on the blog > (the first URL in the signature) and of course The Book of PF touches on > the issue as well, at least the spamd(8) parts. I suppose the "Effective > Spam and Malware Countermeasures" > (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2014/02/effective-spam-and-malware.html) > piece is a goodish place to start. > > For anyone setting up a mail server these days there are worse things to > do than read Aaron Poffenberger's SMTPd mail server tutorial slides and > some related materials > (https://www.bsdcan.org/2016/schedule/events/691.en.html and links therein). > > - Peter > > -- > Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team > http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ > "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" > delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds. > I have never run a mail server before so I know I have a learning curve to work on, which I was not trying to solve in this email, just to feel out where similar people have their mindset on this. I do have more experience administering linux than openbsd but I am slowly working on changing that as I really appreciate the way openbsd is engineered at all levels.
I am familiar with your blogs so I will read up and when I get to the point of specific questions I will bring them up here. Ken
