On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:49:54PM -0800, Damien Hull wrote:
> How is OpenBSD as an Email server?
>
> I ran an email server on FreeBSD and it ran fine. Right now I'm using
> Fedora Core 3 as a workstation and server. My workstation is fine but
> the server is having problems. Could be hardware related. Not sure where
> the problem is.
That's the first question: what's your problem? The below combination
can handle probably 100 users and 10k emails per hour without breaking a
sweat.
> I'm looking for opinions and testimonials. If you are running OpenBSD as
> an email server let me know what you think.
>
> I'm also wondering how the "secure by default" works. Can I get a secure
> mail server out of the ports tree.
>
> 1. Postfix
> 2. Cyrus imap server
> 3. SSL and TLS
Yes, reasonably. Provided you don't break things in the process.
> All of these are in Fedora but I'm wondering if the OpenBSD team has
> modified them in any way or checked them for security problems etc...
Ports aren't generally checked for much other than "Does it build?" and
"Does it work?".
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57. Before employing any captured artifacts or machinery, I will carefully
read the owner's manual.
--Peter Anspach's list of things to do as an Evil Overlord
