Re: Mail server questions

2008-01-21 Thread Gerard
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:42:21 -0500 "Zachary Welch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BSD newbie here, running 6.2 on a core 2 quad system I built. > > I'm Trying to get a secure mail server going and running into some > snags: > > First things first - After installing postfix (which seems to work >

Re: Mail server questions

2008-01-21 Thread Chess Griffin
Zachary Welch wrote: Hello to all, BSD newbie here, running 6.2 on a core 2 quad system I built. I'm Trying to get a secure mail server going and running into some snags: First things first - After installing postfix (which seems to work when testing) and cyrus-sasl2, I opted for t

Mail server questions

2008-01-21 Thread Zachary Welch
Hello to all, BSD newbie here, running 6.2 on a core 2 quad system I built. I'm Trying to get a secure mail server going and running into some snags: First things first - After installing postfix (which seems to work when testing) and cyrus-sasl2, I opted for the Maildir/ config option

Re: Mail server questions (SMTP Auth, Imap and virtual domains)

2004-10-05 Thread Toomas Aas
> From: Wayne Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2. Setup a webmail solution. I'm currently using Squirrelmail for users > that exist in /etc/passwd (not very many!), and am considering a > migration to Horde/IMP. Near as I can tell though it's not the webmail > client that matters, but the ima

Mail server questions (SMTP Auth, Imap and virtual domains)

2004-10-03 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Hi all, I've got a mail setup doing virtualhosts as described at http://www.penguinpowered.org/documentation/exim_virtualhosting.html My users can pull their mail down with POP, but have to use their ISP's SMTP server for outgoing mail. I'd like to do two things at this stage, and I'd appreciat

Re: Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-10-01 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Sep 27, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: On Sep 27, 2004, at 11:39, Nico Meijer wrote: Regular folks don't understand how mail works. They have no clue whatsoever. They don't _want_ to have a clue either. They are just behaving like consumers, again. Do you *really* want to know what's on y

Re: Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-10-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:11:24PM -0700, Brent Wiese wrote: > Is there a way to make the backup MX server understand that some mail is > ultimately destined for it and try to deliver it locally? > > Here would be an example: > > Mydomain.com is MX'd to mail.mydomin.com, which handles email for

RE: Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-09-30 Thread Brent Wiese
> That's the hard part. The Secondary MX'ing part is fairly easy. All > you do is get your friend to add an MX record to the DNS > 'yourfriend.com' zone listing your server as a high numbered MXer: > > $ORIGIN yourfriend.com. > > @ INMX 0 smtp.yourfriend.com. >

Re: Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-09-28 Thread Richard Lynch
Nico Meijer wrote: > Hey Bill, >> Are you saying that it's better for users not to know that their mail >> has been delayed? > > Unfortunately, yes. That is what I am saying. > > On a technical level, I totally disagree with myself. On a practical, > day-to-day operations level I have to admit I'd

Re: Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-09-28 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Bill, When I have a choice of punishing idiots or smart people, I punish idiots. When black mode is on, I just want to get them all. ;-) When I arrange fallback MX for people/organisations, they expect their mail to be handled in a delicate, perhaps even 'professional' manner. No mail may be l

Re: Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-09-27 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:38:15PM -0600, Bill Moran wrote: > > > > When I have a choice of punishing idiots or smart people, I punish > idiots. This is excellent. It should be on a bumper sticker or something. > > > Look at the vehicle situation. If people would force stupid drivers > to w

[OT] Re: Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-09-27 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Doug, Point taken. Wrong example, imho, but point taken. ;-) > They will have no problem convincing Joe Sub-Average juror (of which there will be more than enough to go around) that you were the cause of Joe Average computer users' loss of his entire retirement savings. I have just enough fait

Re: Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-09-27 Thread Bill Moran
Nico Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Bill, > > Black mode is on, here. ;-) I'm not familiar with that metaphor. > > Are you saying that it's better for users not to know that their mail > > has been delayed? > > Unfortunately, yes. That is what I am saying. > > On a technical level, I

Re: Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-09-27 Thread Doug Hardie
On Sep 27, 2004, at 11:39, Nico Meijer wrote: Regular folks don't understand how mail works. They have no clue whatsoever. They don't _want_ to have a clue either. They are just behaving like consumers, again. Do you *really* want to know what's on your plate at dinner? ;-) I do, maybe you too, bu

Re: Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-09-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Eric Crist wrote: [ ... ] One of my friends needs backup DNS/Mail in the even their connection goes down. How do I go about setting it up so that his user base (about 80 users) will not see any problems in mail transmission and reception if their primary servers go offline. I would like mine t

Re: Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-09-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:19:56PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has any insight as to having a remote backup > mail server and the setup of such. I'm currently using sendmail, and I > don't want to change that, so please don't recommend any of the other > servers out th

Re: Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-09-26 Thread Bill Moran
Eric Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > I was wondering if anyone has any insight as to having a remote backup > mail server and the setup of such. I'm currently using sendmail, and I > don't want to change that, so please don't recommend any of the other > servers out there. ;

Backup Mail Server Questions

2004-09-26 Thread Eric Crist
Hello list, I was wondering if anyone has any insight as to having a remote backup mail server and the setup of such. I'm currently using sendmail, and I don't want to change that, so please don't recommend any of the other servers out there. ;) One of my friends needs backup DNS/Mail in the e

Re: Mail Server Questions

2003-10-02 Thread Gary
Hi Darryl, --On Thursday, October 02, 2003 10:25:33 AM -0500 Darryl Hoar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. I have a LAN behind a freebsd firewall. The firewall is also doing nat, as my internal LAN is 192.168.1.* 2. I have dns running on my internal LAN using a dsn name that is registered b

Mail Server Questions

2003-10-02 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, Here's the situation. 1. I have a LAN behind a freebsd firewall. The firewall is also doing nat, as my internal LAN is 192.168.1.* 2. I have dns running on my internal LAN using a dsn name that is registered by not used outside of our private LAN. 3. I have a freebsd (4-7 stable