VPS - SendMail Config

[George Toft]

I used to be a Qmailphobiac.

Qmail was a beast to set up and config.  Inter7 has done a lot of work 
to make it better.  Shupp has done even more - he made instructions even 
my grandma could follow.  Qmail by itself is pretty lackluster.  Toss in 
some patches and you've got a very robust mail server that supports 
virtual mail.

Go here:
	http://shupp.org/toaster/#preface
and follow the instructions.  Scrape and paste, and it's done.  I had to 
localize my instructions because of my heightened security posture.  If 
you changed your umask or any directory permissions, you may find some 
snags.  If it's a default Linux box, you'll be fine.

It will take about 4 hours for the compilation.  In the end, you get 
spam filtering, anti-virus, pop, imap, webmail.  Once set up, a web page 
is used to create e-mail accounts, forwards, etc.

For what it's worth, I just had a commercial vulnerability scanner hit 
the box yesterday and it came up clean.  I've used nessus against it as 
well, so it is very secure.

George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
My IT Department
www.myITaz.com
480-544-1067

Confidential data protection experts for the financial industry.


keith smith wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> I've been reading about postfix for years.
> 
> My concern is messing up a vps server .... this is for leaning mostly so 
> I guess I give it a try.
> 
> The last Linux I used was Debian Patato.  I was familiar with apt-get 
> and how to determine which package to get.  I would go to the Debian 
> website where they listed all the packages.
> 
> I'm aware of exim, postfix,qmail, and sendmail.  I hear exim is good but 
> not widely used.  Qmail is reportedly difficult to configure.   Evey one 
> says to avoid sendmail.   I've also read that sendmail is not all that 
> efficient.  I have read good things about postfix over the years.  I 
> think postfix will be my next stop.
> 
> I'm not sure how to find the yum command to uninstall sendmail and what  
> package would install PostFix.  - I'll start by checking with google....
> 
> Where can I go to look up the packages on Fedora Core 5?
> 
> Any suggestions on a pop3 server?
> 
> And I'm still not clear on setting up an email account.  Is that handled 
> through the pop3 server?
> 
> I saw port 587 was used in sendmail also.  Is that a standard 
> alternative to port 25?
> 
> Thanks a bunch for all your help,
> Keith
> 
> 
> 
> */Empty <plug at emptiedout.com>/* wrote:
> 
>     keith smith wrote:
>      > I'm trying to configure sendmail 8.13 on Fedora Core 5. This is a
>     VPS and I'm doing everything from the command line.
> 
>     No clue on that one, but I would suggest Anything but Sendmail... Try
>     Postfix or Exim or, if you are fairly knowledgeable, qmail.
> 
>      > All I want to do is create an email account
>     info at travelingcheese.net and access it via Thunderbird or webmail. -
>     no local user.
> 
>     So you need a POP3 or IMAP server too...
> 
>      > I would also like to add a port in addition to port 25 for smtp
>     as an alternate.
> 
>     The port you want is port 587.
> 
>     ~Ben
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