Best way to set up an open relay postfix

2009-02-19 Thread Rich
I want to setup postfix so that my users who use laptops can access their email from anywhere and then reply to those emails through the smtp server. What kind of security should I setup?

Re: Best way to set up an open relay postfix

2009-02-19 Thread Peter Blair
I'm certain that you should rephrase that to: Best way to NOT setup an open relay Feel free to test your config against: http://www.abuse.net/relay.html To ensure that your host isn't an open-relay to the Internet (Say hi to hinet if it is) On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Rich

Re: Best way to set up an open relay postfix

2009-02-19 Thread Noel Jones
Rich wrote: I want to setup postfix so that my users who use laptops can access their email from anywhere and then reply to those emails through the smtp server. What kind of security should I setup? Configure your server with SMTP AUTH, and (optional, but recommended) TLS. Here's the

Re: Best way to set up an open relay postfix

2009-02-19 Thread Rich
I used the term open relay because I don't want to limit the by setting mynetworks to a couple of networks. I was thinking by using sasl and tls I could set mynetworks to 0/0. On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Rich rhd...@gmail.com wrote: I want to setup postfix so that my users who use laptops

Re: Best way to set up an open relay postfix

2009-02-19 Thread Peter Blair
0/0 is the entire internet. Take the approach of least privileges. The idea that laptop users VPN in if they want to be given a free ride (no auth) etc works, since you can place your VPN subnet into mynetworks. Perhaps your initial posting was too ambiguous. On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:00 PM,

Re: Best way to set up an open relay postfix

2009-02-19 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Blair wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Rich rhd...@gmail.com wrote: I used the term open relay because I don't want to limit the by setting mynetworks to a couple of networks. I was thinking by using sasl and tls I could set

Re: Best way to set up an open relay postfix

2009-02-19 Thread Rich
Thanks everyone for the direction I needed. I am going to do sasl with tls. Seems to be a good way to go. On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:44 PM, mouss mo...@ml.netoyen.net wrote: Rich a écrit : I used the term open relay because unfortunately for you, you can't arbitrarily redefine common