Postifx.
Beware of the need to adjust default rate controls if you're gonna do bulk mailing.
At 03:35 PM 1/19/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>I have been running sendmail for well over a year behind our firewall
>for local mail. It works well but now I am about to hire a remote
>employee that needs mail and the way I have it setup now is cumbersome
>to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and have it hit the isp server
>rather than being accepted by the local sendmail server.
>
>Additionally, this will enable me to set up a mail access without the
>need for an ssh tunnel which is how I do it from my house, or when I am
>on the road. Some sort of securely encrypted connection to the
>mailserver is wanted as well. I hate clear text passwords. Proably will
>consider a webmail access setup as well.
>
>My thoughts are currently to add a third NIC to my firewall and setup a
>DMZ that will allow me to expose the mail server, and soon to follow
>webserver, to the internet rather than rely on Verio for webhosting
>services. I feel pretty comfortable with my abilities to do this.
>
>Now having said all that and knowing that I have at least a modicum of
>linux experience, what would you mail gurus suggest I use? Sendmail
>scares me. So the question is postfix or qmail I guess? Which is
>easier to adminster and or harder to screw up? :) Keep in mind I don't
>have any esoteric needs like virtual hosting or stuff like that.
>
>I have a static ADSL network that gives me five usable ip addresses (one
>is already firewall). once I get the server up and running, What do I
>need to do to have the MX record changed to the new mailserver? If I go
>the independent route I guess I will need to run DNS for the domain as
>well?
>
>TIA for any help on researching this project. I hope to have all the
>peices identified before wading into it. Most of my time in linux has
>been spent in keeping stuff out of my network and machines and trusing
>my skills to actually provide services to the net is a bit scary from a
>security point of view.
>
>Bret
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Central Texas IT
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