----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Calfa" <
tvat3000@netscape.net>
To: <
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 5:51 PM
Subject: Postfix hellp
>
> Now I have a fairly good concept of mail, processes, etc. This postfix
> thing eludes me. I don't want to use sendmail because of the bad aura
> that surrounds it.
I'm sorry, but you've been deluded. Sendmail is an incredibly powerful mail
server. It is just as secure as any other mail server *if* it is well
maintained.
> I've heard that postfix is supposed to "work" once it's started.
Yeah, I bought that horse hockey, too. Decided to try Postfix. Found it to
be just as cryptic as sendmail, and my experience with the postfix community
consisted of being insulted repeatedly (for being an evil American and
attacking Iraq and for being an MCSE), getting a lot of "RTFM, stupid"
responses and not *once* getting a clear answer.
> The
> only thing it does is work from the localhost. The docs say that the
> default is to trust the subnet but that is false. From what I've seen
> on various BB's around, I'm not the only one but the answers given
> either didn't exist or were still cryptic. Postfix site and docs say to
> use !file|name and $mydomain but that doesn't tell me anything. They
> might as well say to use batteries and glass.
Look - the RH8 and RH9 sendmail config works right out of the box. The only
files you should need to modify are /etc/mail/local-host-names and
/etc/mail/access. You need to add your domain name to local-host-names, and
the subnet (i.e. 192.168.1) you want to allow to relay in access. Then run
make in the /etc/mail directory, restart sendmail, and you are done. It's
really that easy.
Sendmail is a great MTA. Because it is so heavily used, there are lots of
eyes on it, and security problems do get discovered. They also get fixed
fast. I've been using Sendmail for almost 7 years and *never* been
exploited. All it takes is keeping up to date.
--
Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Cameron Technical Services, Inc.
http://www.camerontech.com/
(512) 454-3200
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