Good stuff! Thanks. I involuntarily focus on phrases like "slightly more baby sitting" and "a bit complicated", though. That sounds like "work" to me.
I am considering Google for Nonprofits <http://www.google.com/nonprofits/>. My only hesitation grows from my prejudice, as in "Google" means "mostly benevolent and disturbingly o*mnispective overlord". Anyone tried that option?* * * *- Chris* On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Sean Dague <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/31/2012 11:04 PM, Chris Joslyn wrote: > >> You know the story. Boy sets up webserver. Boy helps nonprofit. >> Nonprofit wants boy to set up a mail server. It finishes somewhere with >> boy spending too much of his free time trying to read and remember how >> to do all this properly. >> >> So. >> >> I seek wisdom. >> >> Facts: >> >> Ubuntu 11.10 >> Reverse DNS set up. >> Hostname set up. >> Postfix set up. >> I can send an email from the server from a command line email client. >> Good so far. >> >> Now I decide on server software. What say you? Dovecot >> <http://dovecot.org/>? Courier <http://www.courier-mta.org/>? Hormel >> herring >> <http://en.wiktionary.org/**wiki/mislead<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mislead>>? >> Something else? >> > > I went with Dovecot, after 2 hours of getting no where with Courier. > Dovecot was much more straight forward on my Ubuntu Linode (which is still > 10.04, but I don't think a lot will have changed). > > The linode guides are always quite good, so I'd start there for the parts > you haven't done yet (and double check the ones you have) - > http://library.linode.com/**email/postfix<http://library.linode.com/email/postfix> > > I also saw this fly by the other day, which I was going to read through to > see if there was anything else in postfix I needed to look out for - > http://flurdy.com/docs/**postfix/index.html<http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/index.html> > > I have found that mail servers require slightly more baby sitting because > of the spam problem. You'll tighten up rules the way you think you are > supposed to, then find some pseudo legit mail getting dropped (like > christmas wish list from a clothing company that your wife likes). > > I would also recommend that when you integrate spamassassin (assuming > that's coming) to do it at the milter level, which lets spamassassin reject > mail before delivery. There is a spamass-milter package in Ubuntu that does > most of this for you. > > Postgrey, install it and mail sure it's running. That gets rid of 80% of > my inbound mail as being invalid, which it is. > > -Sean > > -- > > Sean Dague Learn about the Universe with the > sean at dague dot net Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association > http://dague.net http://midhudsonastro.org > > ______________________________**_________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/mhvlug<http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug> > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Feb 1 - Home Networking Made Simple with Amahi Home Server > Mar 7 - Desktop Shootout - 9th Anniversary of MHVLUG > Apr 4 - An Intro to Chef >
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