Julian Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What would you recommend as an email server setup (on Redhat) for >roaming users who are highly likely to be accessing the server from a >public WiFi hotspot. I'm currently thinking:-
Just thought I'd let you know how I got on and provide a couple of pointers for people coming after me. 1) Installed Qpopper with pop3s - no problems, just follow the instructions. 2) Installed Exim - basic install went fine but despite a day wasted searching and questions to the Exim mailing list I completely failed to find a configuration cookbook for SMTP STARTTLS and/or AUTH using the pop3 passwords. Gave up in disgust. 3) Installed Postfix and found http://howto.state-of-mind.de/index.html An absolutely brilliant, complete and accurate how-to. I now have - SMTP relaying generally turned off - port 25 STARTTLS, once TLS is running plain and login AUTH using the pop3 id-passwords, then relaying. - port 25 accepts mail with local destinations - port 465 TLS wrapper, then plain and login AUTH using the pop3 id-passwords then relaying And it all works with Outlook, Outlook Express and if I'm stuck with an email reader that can do AUTH but not TLS I can stunnel to 465 first. I'm currently using self-signed Certs. I wanted to use www.opencerts.com but their site is currently broken in that the input form always fails. So I'll have to get real signed certs before I go into production. So now how do we encourage the commercial ISPs to support pop3s, smtps with AUTH and smtp with STARTTLS and AUTH so that people without their own server can feel comfortable using email over public WiFi? next stop, procmail and Vipul's razor... -- Julian Bond Email&MSM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webmaster: http://www.ecademy.com/ Personal WebLog: http://www.voidstar.com/ CV/Resume: http://www.voidstar.com/cv/ M: +44 (0)77 5907 2173 T: +44 (0)192 0412 433 -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
