Matt is correct. Sendmail is quite secure and feature rich.
Additionally, mimedefang allows you to hang a large variety of spam and
virus control tools off of it with very little effort.
Thanks,
Jeff G.
Matt Pusateri wrote:
Lisa,
Cannit is a sendmail milter, so it will return the results to sendmail
and then sendmail should hand things to procmail as the local delivery
agent. I use mimedefang the open source version of cannit. I highly
recommend keeping it, although sendmail doesn't bother me :) And
contary to popular belief I don't believe it's nearly a insecure as it
used to be. Also sendmail 8.13 has some really nice spam reducing
capabilites, such as greet pause.
Matt Pusateri
On Sun, June 26, 2005 8:08 pm, Lisa C Boyd said:
Sam Folk-Williams wrote:
Is this a production server? If you can handle some downtime, this
would be a great opporunity to upgrade to postfix from sendmail --
much easier to configure and generally more secure.
It is a production server but seeing as how I've hosed it really is
going to have some downtime anyway :) On F3 is it relatively easy to
install postfix?
IIRC, dovecot has pretty minimal config options so I'd be curious
what
kind of trouble it is giving you...
Dovecot at first was not letting other users read their mail. It would
let me access things perfectly, but not other users and as far as I
know, we were all setup the same (same kind of mailboxes, etc.). So I
added their home directories into Dovecot's preferences to be accessed
although it says in the config file this move is not the greatest of
security moves.
Does this help at all?
What you said makes perfect sense. I'm thinking as long as there are
some competent people on the list tonight I might just go ahead and
make the move to postfix and courier :)
My only concern right now is losing mail. Last Wednesday I download
mb2md to translate all my mboxes to maildirs. Now I think I have both
in my directory but when I tried to run it in another user's home
directory as that user, it gave me an error saying it couldn't access
*my* /var/spool/mail/file instead of the user's mail file. So I'm
really kinda confused but it looks like I just need to back up and
take it one step at a time.
Stay tuned for more questions :)
Lisa B.
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