Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
I have asked this question in iRedMail support forums but nobody knows
the answer.
I have sent an email to Cybonet Technical Support but received no replies.
My Postfix (+Amavisd) Linux mail server was installed and configured
automatically using iRedMail version 1.4.0 on Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS.
IIRC iRedMail is a packaged "mail appliance" system build on mostly open
source mail components like Postfix. It mainly provides a configuration
layer on top of several tools for quickly standing up a working mail
system. If I had to quickly set up a full-featured small to low
mid-scale mail system, to hand off to someone with limited experience
diving deep into mail system administration, it's the sort of system I'd
look at.
If the PineApp you're looking at is the same one I had a... certain
experience with... trying to extract customer mail data from a number of
years ago, it is a highly vendor-lockin black box that you do not modify
aside from the configuration knobs in the web UI. It worked tolerably
well while running, but you have exactly zero access to its operating
internals - it's all buried in an encrypted loopback image which the end
administrator is explicitly and specifically denied access to by PineApp.
It was so locked down I had to contact PineApp support to *update the
SSL cert for mail and web services*. Even Microsoft Exchange internals
are easier to inspect, I think. (I suspect given time it would be
possible to deconstruct and access this loopback image, since it didn't
appear to require any hardware keys or a startup password or some kind
of remote license check when rebooted. But it would be a gigantic
headache, and just given that it's set up this way at all is a big "None
of your business" sign.)
I want to integrate Postfix (+Amavisd) with Cybonet PineApp Secure
Email Gateway. Has anybody done this before?
I can't seem to find any good, well written and detailed documentation
on how to INTEGRATE Postfix with PineApp. The only documention I can
find are those on how to install PineApp on a bare metal physical
machine, Hyper-V or VMware, nothing about integration at all.
Assuming the one I crossed paths with is the same platform you're
looking at, the short answer is "you don't", unless you mean setting a
smarthost for the PineApp appliance, or set up a separate (virtual?)
machine as a MX host that immediately relays to the PineApp appliance.
You simply do not make any changes to its internals, period, and you
don't make any configuration changes not exposed by its web UI.
Aside from my experience, reading their site it looks like this is
basically intended as an inbound MX filter relay - a system that sits in
front of your primary mail host, and does your mail filter processing
before handing the "clean" mail to your mail host. Most such platforms
don't allow modifications aside from whatever configuration they've
exposed in a web UI.
-kgd
