Re: setting up an email server in a recent version of OpenBSD

2021-09-27 Thread Peter Nicolai Mathias Hansteen
> 27. sep. 2021 kl. 19:42 skrev Teno Deuter : > > Dear group, > > anyone could point to some recent online resources how to setup an email > server in OpenBSD? What I found from Google was a bit thin. So I'm > wondering if I was missing something out there. I think

setting up an email server in a recent version of OpenBSD

2021-09-27 Thread Teno Deuter
Dear group, anyone could point to some recent online resources how to setup an email server in OpenBSD? What I found from Google was a bit thin. So I'm wondering if I was missing something out there. Thank you for your support

Re: setting up an email server in a recent version of OpenBSD

2021-09-27 Thread Clemens Gößnitzer
On 27/09/2021 19:42, Teno Deuter wrote: Dear group, anyone could point to some recent online resources how to setup an email server in OpenBSD? What I found from Google was a bit thin. So I'm wondering if I was missing something out there. Thank you for your support Check out this from

Re: setting up an email server in a recent version of OpenBSD

2021-09-27 Thread Kastus Shchuka
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 08:42:30PM +0300, Teno Deuter wrote: > Dear group, > > anyone could point to some recent online resources how to setup an email > server in OpenBSD? What I found from Google was a bit thin. So I'm > wondering if I was missing something out there. Did ht

Re: Small Business email server using OpenSMTPD

2017-01-13 Thread Mark Carroll
On 13 Jan 2017, aretes wrote: > I'm trying to move a small business email server from an older OpenBSD using > sendmail to one with OpenBSD 6.0 using OpenSMTPD. > > The current email server has: > - a certificate (used by StartTLS) You can use openssl to set up keys and put

Re: Small Business email server using OpenSMTPD

2017-01-13 Thread Vijay Sankar
Quoting aretes27...@mypacks.net: > I'm trying to move a small business email server from an older OpenBSD > using sendmail to one with OpenBSD 6.0 using OpenSMTPD. > > The current email server has: > - a certificate (used by StartTLS) > - MS Outlook clients using pop3 to r

Small Business email server using OpenSMTPD

2017-01-13 Thread aretes27884
I'm trying to move a small business email server from an older OpenBSD using sendmail to one with OpenBSD 6.0 using OpenSMTPD. The current email server has: - a certificate (used by StartTLS) - MS Outlook clients using pop3 to retrieve their mail - OpenWebmail for non-local client access I've

Re: The ultimate OpenBSD email server

2012-09-06 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 08:38 AM 8/16/2012, Joel Carnat wrote: Le 15 août 2012 à 16:16, L. V. Lammert a écrit : This looked interesting so I had a look at it for a few hours. My (2 cents) conclusions are: - it has a pretty interface indeed ; - it has a few configuration bugs (php modules are not enabled and it

Re: The ultimate OpenBSD email server

2012-08-21 Thread Mikkel Bang
2012/8/15 Peter N. M. Hansteen pe...@bsdly.net I beg to differ. spamd(8) in any configuration is a lot more lightweight than content filtering. You most likely will need content filtering in addition to greylisting+greytrapping, but stopping them earlier is a real plus. See eg

Re: The ultimate OpenBSD email server

2012-08-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-08-16, Joel Carnat j...@carnat.net wrote: - roundcube and suhosin don't play well together ; there is no general problem with roundcube and suhosin playing together, you just have to follow the documentation about disabling session encryption (clearly documented in the installation

Re: The ultimate OpenBSD email server

2012-08-19 Thread Joel Carnat
Le 19 août 2012 à 14:15, Stuart Henderson a écrit : On 2012-08-16, Joel Carnat j...@carnat.net wrote: - roundcube and suhosin don't play well together ; there is no general problem with roundcube and suhosin playing together, you just have to follow the documentation about disabling session

Re: The ultimate OpenBSD email server

2012-08-16 Thread Joel Carnat
Le 15 août 2012 à 16:16, L. V. Lammert a écrit : On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Mikkel Bang wrote: But with so many people recommending so many different tools, it gets hard to come to a conclusion. Looks like I'm finally arriving at this though: postfix (postfix-anti-UCE.txt) + dspam - what do you

The ultimate OpenBSD email server

2012-08-15 Thread Mikkel Bang
I'm trying to configure the ultimate email server for this webapp that needs to send and receive / forward emails to and from thousands of users. But with so many people recommending so many different tools, it gets hard to come to a conclusion. Looks like I'm finally arriving at this though

Re: The ultimate OpenBSD email server

2012-08-15 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 02:09:47PM +0200, Mikkel Bang wrote: I'm trying to configure the ultimate email server for this webapp that needs to send and receive / forward emails to and from thousands of users. Dropped: - spamdb+greytrapping: Not necessary if I'm already running dspam I beg

Re: The ultimate OpenBSD email server

2012-08-15 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 14:09, Mikkel Bang wrote: - spamassassin: Too old, too huge and too hard to set up (but maybe those who advised against it had more against Perl than anything else) Not that you have to use it, but spamassassin is still actively maintained. Maybe you shouldn't use

Re: The ultimate OpenBSD email server

2012-08-15 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Mikkel Bang wrote: But with so many people recommending so many different tools, it gets hard to come to a conclusion. Looks like I'm finally arriving at this though: postfix (postfix-anti-UCE.txt) + dspam - what do you guys think? Take a look at mailserv,

Re: The ultimate OpenBSD email server

2012-08-15 Thread Zhang Huangbin
On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 10:16 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote: Take a look at mailserv, https://github.com/mailserv. The admin interface is nice, and all components are integrated. Here's another one: http://www.iredmail.org/ Works on OpenBSD 5.1. Installation guide is here:

Re: Forwarding roots mail to another account , seperate email server

2008-02-11 Thread Steven Surdock
Jay Hart wrote: Chris, ... I do receive emails from the machine, but they are not being delivered properly. Here is what I get when I receive one: Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, February 11, 2008 11:31 am

Re: Forwarding roots mail to another account , seperate email server

2008-02-11 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/02/11 12:36, Jay Hart wrote: Henning, You are right, it is ~/.forward Any suggestions? look in maillog

Re: Forwarding roots mail to another account , seperate email server

2008-02-11 Thread Jay Hart
Henning, You are right, it is ~/.forward Any suggestions? * Jay Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-11 17:58]: Regardless, I can't seem to get mail forwarding working. The two main openbsd books say all I need to do is create a .forwarding file and give the name of the email address to forward

Re: Forwarding roots mail to another account , seperate email server

2008-02-11 Thread scorch
Henning Brauer wrote: * Jay Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-11 17:58]: Regardless, I can't seem to get mail forwarding working. The two main openbsd books say all I need to do is create a .forwarding file and give the name of the email address to forward to, but for two months not one email was

Re: Forwarding roots mail to another account , seperate email server

2008-02-11 Thread Henning Brauer
* Jay Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-11 17:58]: Regardless, I can't seem to get mail forwarding working. The two main openbsd books say all I need to do is create a .forwarding file and give the name of the email address to forward to, but for two months not one email was forwarded. it is

Re: Forwarding roots mail to another account , seperate email server

2008-02-11 Thread Jay Hart
for delivery, they are getting hung because [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist as a valid account on my email server. But, why aren't they being sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your advice greatly appreciated. Jay On Feb 11, 2008 8:55 AM, Jay Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regardless, I can't seem to get mail

Re: Forwarding roots mail to another account , seperate email server

2008-02-11 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Feb 11, 2008 8:55 AM, Jay Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regardless, I can't seem to get mail forwarding working. The two main openbsd books say all I need to do is create a .forwarding file and give the name of the email address to forward to, but for two months not one email was forwarded.

Forwarding roots mail to another account , seperate email server

2008-02-11 Thread Jay Hart
to get the email delivered from root, to another account on my email server sitting behind the firewall? Jay

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-22 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, 21.02.2007 at 14:14:57 -0800, lechuit pierre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem has been translated on FTP (creation of FTP access to transfer presentation!) that's what the regular users can be taught to use, and it works. One policy used is to postpone big files to transfer

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-22 Thread Michael Favinsky
, February 21, 2007 8:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Org (E-mail) Subject: Email server and large Emails. I have FINALLY been allowed to schedule time to replace the aging mail server. Currently, it is running OpenBSD 3.7, with sendmail, smtp-vilter, and clamav. This is our internal mail server

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-22 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:39:14AM -0500, stuartv wrote: I have FINALLY been allowed to schedule time to replace the aging mail server. Currently, it is running OpenBSD 3.7, with sendmail, smtp-vilter, and clamav. This is our internal mail server and it uses fetchmail to get our email off

Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread stuartv
I have FINALLY been allowed to schedule time to replace the aging mail server. Currently, it is running OpenBSD 3.7, with sendmail, smtp-vilter, and clamav. This is our internal mail server and it uses fetchmail to get our email off of the public server and sends our email out using a smart

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread Doug Clements
On 2/21/07, stuartv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So now to my question. What software works really well for an internal mail server? I would like some spam protection and I NEED Anti-virus, and I need it all to work even when a customer sends an email with a 50M file attachment because they

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello Stuart, On Wed, 21.02.2007 at 11:39:14 -0500, stuartv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So now to my question. What software works really well for an internal mail server? I would like some spam protection and I NEED Anti-virus, and I need it all to work even when a customer sends an email

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread Darren Spruell
On 2/21/07, stuartv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: spamassassin. Lately, we have been receiving emails with larger and larger attachments which has been causing the clamav to take to long scanning them and thus a time-out and again, no more email until I get it straitened out. So now to my question.

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread Nico Meijer
Hey Darren et al, IMHO you're trying to find a technical solution to a bigger problem. He could ask the boss for 'more' hardware. Most problems tend to go away when thrown adequate amounts of money at them, and timeouts because of scanning and filtering is probably one of those types of

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread stuartv
likely to contain a virus though. stuart -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Darren Spruell Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:57 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Email server and large Emails. On 2/21/07, stuartv [EMAIL

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, 21.02.2007 at 20:42:13 +0100, Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you're dead right. In day to day business, I've found that most people have no clue how to transfer files from one place to the other, other than through mail. you probably *could* make them use WebDAV if their

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread Darren Spruell
On 2/21/07, Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Darren et al, IMHO you're trying to find a technical solution to a bigger problem. He could ask the boss for 'more' hardware. Most problems tend to go away when thrown adequate amounts of money at them, and timeouts because of scanning and

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread L. V. Lammert
On 2/21/07, Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Darren et al, IMHO you're trying to find a technical solution to a bigger problem. He could ask the boss for 'more' hardware. Most problems tend to go away when thrown adequate amounts of money at them, and timeouts because of scanning

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/02/21 11:39, stuartv wrote: I have FINALLY been allowed to schedule time to replace the aging mail server. Currently, it is running OpenBSD 3.7, with sendmail, smtp-vilter, and clamav. This is our internal mail server and it uses fetchmail to get our email off of the public server

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, 21.02.2007 at 14:26:00 -0600, L. V. Lammert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bigger question is - how does the BOSS know there was a 30 second delay in incoming email due to virus scanning? the BOSS probably doesn't know that the delay is owed to the virus scanning, but I've

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread stuartv
of the server cabinet even is. It sure had pretty lights on it, prob why they kept it. stuart -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Toni Mueller Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:39 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Email server and large

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread lechuit pierre
Hi, several topics have been discussed. Mail is a company topic, even none IT associates don't mind how it works and just want to send/receive mail. For my part, saleforces (profit center) have been sensitive to large mails when their client messaging system refused their heavy mails (more than

Re: Email server and large Emails.

2007-02-21 Thread smith
download their email to their machines. Pop has the advantage of not filling up your email server with files. People tend to use email for everything, including file storage which is not what email was designed for. The disadvantage to pop is that users can't go home or go on someone else's computer

Re: Email Server

2005-05-25 Thread Damien Hull
understanding is that you have to take Postfix off-line to add any users and then putt it back in the sandbox and then bring it back on-line. Leaving Postfix outside of a sandbox means you just add users when you need to. I did this once on a FreeBSD email server a few years back. I decided

Re: Email Server

2005-05-25 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 11:31 AM 5/25/2005 -0800, Damien Hull wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: o, secure by default means that you should only run OpenBSD as it comes and do not touch anything on it. Or else, it won't be secure by default; your warranty is voided and Theo will spank you. in the base install is

Re: Email Server

2005-05-25 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Damien Hull wrote: I'm still a long ways away from designing a system. I haven't even decided which OS I want to use. If enough people on the list can convince me that OpenBSD is the way to go I'll install it on a system, ship it down to Seattle and collect my mail. This will be on a test

Re: Email Server

2005-05-25 Thread Will H. Backman
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Damien Hull Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 3:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: misc Subject: Re: Email Server [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:18:58AM -0700, Bruno Delbono wrote

Re: Email Server

2005-05-25 Thread Bryan Allen
you need to. I did this once on a FreeBSD email server a few years back. I decided that a sandbox was to much work. chroot, or root jail, and Postfix chroots itself by default. The only things that you need to concern with, generally, are: 1) Keeping things in /var/spool/postfix/etc in sycn

Re: Email Server

2005-05-25 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 25 May 2005 16:11 -0400, Will H. Backman wrote: Any operating system will end up using third party applications Not necessarily, it is perfectly possible to run e.g. routers, VPN gateways, NFS servers, wireless access-points, ftp and web servers, mail servers, [...] with just the

Re: Email Server

2005-05-25 Thread Nick Holland
understanding is that you have to take Postfix off-line to add any users and then putt it back in the sandbox and then bring it back on-line. Leaving Postfix outside of a sandbox means you just add users when you need to. I did this once on a FreeBSD email server a few years back. I decided

Re: Email Server

2005-05-24 Thread hellsop
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:18:58AM -0700, Bruno Delbono wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ports aren't generally checked for much other than Does it build? and Does it work?. So, secure by default means that you should only run OpenBSD as it comes and do not touch anything on it. Or else,

Email Server

2005-05-23 Thread Damien Hull
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. I'm looking for opinions