> Paul Stevens-2 wrote: Please get a clue: read the manual: man saslauthd
Hi Paul, Thanks for the clue. LOL I'm a quy running a small network, and I'm not as young as I use to be. LOL I created an account with Gmail, which works fine for relaying emails. I'm thinking about making Gmail accounts the default for my iPhone users. The iPhone users could then connect remotely to their Gmail accounts over an SSL connection for relay emails out into the internet. I would create two account on the iPhone user's Thunderbird mail client located on their desktop computer. One of the Thunderbird accounts would connect to Gmail, and the other account would connect to DBmail. Then, the iPhone users could very easily move emails with retention value from Gmail to DBmail. In this scenario the DBmail server would be acting as a kind of backup system, and the iPhone user would be responsible for keeping their Gmail accounts clean and under quotas. Some of the advantages of using Gmail are: 1) Gmail would have a lot more muscle than I, at staying on top of security problems and junk/spam emails. I was watching my Postfix log file last night, using Komodo, while debuging my relay problem, and there were so many entries hitting the logs file, I couldn't keep up with them. Every time I refreshed Komodo, there were pages of new lines, mostly mail that wanted to be relayed, but Postfix was doing her job and rejecting them. The spamming going on today is ridiculous. I really don't have the time to stay on top of all the spamming going on. 2) Gmail connect over SSL and will relay from remote users. 3) Gmail is free. 4) I wouldn't need to mess around with creating an ssl certificate, which I could sign, I suppose. I have a certificate issued by a third party for my shopping cart web application, and the same approach could be used for my mail server. The third party vouches that my website can be trusted, but certificates issued by third parties aren't cheap. LOL If Gmail does not work out for me, I would use DBmail on my Fedora 11 desktop. I installed DBmail, Postfix, and PostgreSQL in on my Fedora 11 desktop computer last night and configured PostgreSQL, (eg up until 4:30 AM this morning). There is a configuration gui on Fedora 11, I believe, that helps with the configuration of LDAP, which will probably be helpful. I would need to research SELinux to make sure there were no issue with having it enabled with the mail configuration running. Once I had everything working locally on my Desktop computer, I would move all mail from my Fedora 6 server onto my desktop server and have the router relay email ports to the desktop computer. After everything is running smoothly on the Desktop computer for awhile, I would copy the Fedora 11 image back onto the DB mail server. This would give me up to date libraries and the latest versions of all the applications. I'm a small home network, so I really don't want to use a proxy server on the other side of my firewall, just to provide SSL; although, I can see advantages of doing so for anyone with the proper resources and a larger number of users. I must say, I have really enjoyed DBmail, DBmail Administrator, PostgreSQL and Postfix over the last five years. Its a rock solid system. My mail server had dutifully performed her job on a 24/7 basis, never taking a break or complaining about anything. The server has been a real mule, so I'm sure the latest version of DBmail, DBmail Administrator, PostgreSQL and SSL with LDAP would be greate. At some point I will probably upgrade my DBmail server and website to run on Fedora 11 or Fedora 12, regardless of whether Gmail work out or not. Regards, LelandJ > > > Paul Stevens-2 wrote: >> lelandj wrote: >>> Thanks Paul. I'm looking into it. I'll let you know how it goes. >>> >>> I did learn that dbmail uses its "dbmail-users" script to add or delete >>> users. At the time the script creates the user, a shadow user is >>> created >>> in >>> the "dbmail" database to hold the emails of the created user. >> the user exists nowhere else *but* in the database -- unless you're >> using authldap. Only then should the record in dbmail_users be regarded >> as a 'shadow' of ldap. >> >> -- >> ________________________________________________________________ >> Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl >> NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 >> The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl >> _______________________________________________ >> DBmail mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail >> >> > -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Using-sasl-with-dbmail-and-md5-login-tp27468767p27483013.html Sent from the dbmail users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
