Re: Best distro for Exim/Cyrus

2014-02-20 Thread Vladislav Kurz
On Thursday 20 of February 2014 05:50:21 Paul O'Rorke wrote: Hi again guys, thanks for the help thus far. I have managed to get cyrus talking with exim to deliver mail (the -a inside the quotes did this) and I have the cyrus_sasl driver authenticating using DIGEST-MD5:

Re: Best distro for Exim/Cyrus

2014-02-20 Thread Paul O'Rorke
Thanks Vlad, the last three lines (ifnedef - endif) can be IMHO deleted, because DIGEST-MD5 (and CRAM-MD5 and NTLM) do not send plaintext passwords, so should be allowed even on otherwise unencrypted connection. commented out. Check if user Debian-exim is member of sasl group - to get access

Re: Best distro for Exim/Cyrus

2014-02-19 Thread Paul O'Rorke
Hi again guys, thanks for the help thus far. I have managed to get cyrus talking with exim to deliver mail (the -a inside the quotes did this) and I have the cyrus_sasl driver authenticating using DIGEST-MD5: digest_md5_sasl_server: driver = cyrus_sasl public_name =

Re: Best distro for Exim/Cyrus

2014-02-19 Thread Paul O'Rorke
Another strange this. The encrypted passwords would not be a problem if I could get TLS working, I could auth with *login_sasl_server* but even though exim appears to be advertising STARTTLS none of the MUA clients I've tested recognise the TLS. (Thunderbird and Outlos 2013) When I use swaks

Re: Best distro for Exim/Cyrus

2014-02-19 Thread Paul O'Rorke
Looking at this: http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-smtp_authentication.html maybe I should be specifying a client_ parameter for SMTP auth? Too many changes - tired and need sleep. Hopefully I'll have something clearer in the morning. *Paul O'Rorke* Tracker

Re: Best distro for Exim/Cyrus

2014-02-17 Thread Vladislav Kurz
On Saturday 15 of February 2014 00:05:59 Paul O'Rorke wrote: If I don't use any encrypted passwords I can log in, work with mailboxes, receive mail but not send (relay not permitted which I suspect is so as to not be an open relay..?) You can always set relay_nets (using dpkg-reconfigure

Re: Best distro for Exim/Cyrus

2014-02-14 Thread Paul O'Rorke
Vlad and Andrew, thanks so much for the tip on the lmtpd -a - that certainly did allow mail to flow to the expected mailbox. Thanks so much. I'm definitely making progress thanks to the help here. I'm stuck getting sasl authentication though. As I understand it cyrus_sasl uses it's own

Re: Best distro for Exim/Cyrus

2014-02-13 Thread Vladislav Kurz
On Thursday 13 of February 2014 00:30:55 Paul O'Rorke wrote: Thanks for that Vladislav, it was very helpful. :-) I have managed to get exim to use the defined cyrus_delivery transport attempting to deliver a received mail but it is baulking on the SSL cert. For starters, comment out

Re: Best distro for Exim/Cyrus

2014-02-12 Thread Paul O'Rorke
Thanks for that Vladislav, it was very helpful. :-) I have managed to get exim to use the defined cyrus_delivery transport attempting to deliver a received mail but it is baulking on the SSL cert. From /var/log/mail.err : Feb 12 14:58:46 blmail cyrus/lmtp[3523]: unable to get private key

Re: Best distro for Exim/Cyrus

2014-02-12 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Paul O'Rorke wrote: So I seem to be getting confused about when the SSL is used. Ideally I'd like to use SSL and authentication for SMTP and IMAP. Is it that the LMTP needs authentication and it's not? I did use in /etc/cyrus.conf lmtpcmd=lmtpd -a

Re: Best distro for Exim/Cyrus

2014-02-11 Thread Vladislav Kurz
On Monday 10 of February 2014 23:13:42 Paul O'Rorke wrote: Hi again Cyrus list, still trying to find a definitive resource to use to get this mail server up and running. Does anyone know of a good howto for setting up Debian/Exim/Cyrus? I think this is the combination I want to move from

Re: Best distro for Exim/Cyrus

2014-02-11 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 2/10/2014 4:13 PM, Paul O'Rorke wrote: still trying to find a definitive resource to use to get this mail server up and running. Does anyone know of a good howto for setting up Debian/Exim/Cyrus? I think this is the combination I want to move from the Centos/Exim/Dovecote box I inherited

Re: Best distro for Exim/Cyrus

2014-02-10 Thread Paul O'Rorke
Hi again Cyrus list, still trying to find a definitive resource to use to get this mail server up and running. Does anyone know of a good howto for setting up Debian/Exim/Cyrus? I think this is the combination I want to move from the Centos/Exim/Dovecote box I inherited but I must confess

Re: Best distro for Exim/Cyrus

2014-02-10 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Paul O'Rorke wrote: Hi again Cyrus list, still trying to find a definitive resource to use to get this mail server up and running. Does anyone know of a good howto for setting up Debian/Exim/Cyrus? I think this is the combination I want to move from the

Best distro for Exim/Cyrus

2014-02-07 Thread Paul O'Rorke
Hi all, I am replacing a mail server and want to implement an Exim/Cyrus solution. Most specifically it is Cyrus and the ACLs that I want. I have not set up a mail server in more than 10 years and many things have changed. What do the users of this list consider the best Linux distro for

Re: Best distro for Exim/Cyrus

2014-02-07 Thread Geoff Winkless
I've used Debian for exim and cyrus for the last 10 years or so and in my experience the packages Just Work. I would definitely recommend. On 7 February 2014 18:54, Paul O'Rorke p...@tracker-software.com wrote: Hi all, I am replacing a mail server and want to implement an Exim/Cyrus