VPS - SendMail Config

[George Toft]

Unfortunately, sometimes one must do "stupid" things to ensure revenue 
keeps coming in.  We had to stand up a mail server in a matter of a 
couple hours as our e-mail provider really screwed things up.  "If you 
want it done right, do it yourself!" comes to mind.

Yes, we have a bunch of compiled code on a package-based system.  Yes, 
it's ugly.  But it works, it's network and user secure, and it generates 
revenue.

When we stand up a new server to replace this one, we'll try to build 
the binary packages on the dev box, then deploy the packages on the prod 
box.

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

Confidential data protection experts for the financial industry.


Craig White wrote:
> My opinion is that installing Qmail on a Red Hat based system is plain
> stupid since you lose all of the benefits of reasoned and maintained
> package management. Once you stray from the standard packages, you
> assume all responsibility for updating it whereas if it were a Red Hat
> system, you would merely do 'yum update' or 'up2date -u' and get all the
> updates installed.
> 
> That is the practical side of maintaining a system.
> 
> The packaging restrictions on Qmail are anti-GPL. The mechanics of Qmail
> don't allow easy integration of really nice mail server add-ons such as
> greylisting and content scanning (MailScanner comes to mind here).
> 
> A good Postfix, SQLGrey, MailScanner, ClamAV, with cyrus-imapd is a high
> performance, spam/virus/phish stopping monster and all easily obtainable
> from a Red Hat based system.
> 
> Craig
> 
> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 13:15 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> 
>>Keith,
>>
>>Qmail by itself is a lot of work to set up (with patches and all), but 
>>you might want to check out www.qmailtoaster.com. All of the integration 
>>work has already been done, so creating a mail server is pretty simple. 
>>Many nice features are included. I've had good success with it.
>>
>>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
>>>    -- 
>>>    ---
>>>    "Confession only helps if you actually feel bad for your actions.
>>>    For you, it would just be a really long boast."
>>>    -Tara
>>>    http://www.emptiedout.com
>>
>>
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