VPS - SendMail Config

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keith smith wrote:
> Hi Ben,

Hi Keith :)

> My concern is messing up a vps server .... this is for leaning mostly so I guess I give it a try.  

If you go the qmail route(see my next email) you probably won't screw it
up. You can build it and install it if you copy /usr/sbin/sendmail and
/var/lib/sendmail out of the way first and redirect those files in RPM(I
don't know how to do this- I've not used redhat since 7.2...) On Debian
boxes I leave Exim in place(to fulfill the "mta" requirement of many
packages and because I like having "mail" around ;) and simply disable
it in /etc/rc?.d.

> 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.

That's way oldschool! apt-cache lets you search the repositories you
have configured and you can install from there. Example:

root at nulled:~# apt-cache search cisco vpn
vpnc - Cisco-compatible VPN client
root at nulled:~# apt-cache show vpnc
Package: vpnc
Priority: extra
Section: net
Installed-Size: 124
Maintainer: Eduard Bloch <blade at debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.3.2+SVN20050326-2
Depends: iproute, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), libgcrypt11, libgpg-error0
(>= 1.0)
Suggests: resolvconf
Filename: pool/main/v/vpnc/vpnc_0.3.2+SVN20050326-2_i386.deb
Size: 43496
MD5sum: 7430a017963a410eefba142dc45361cf
Description: Cisco-compatible VPN client
 vpnc is a VPN client compatible with cisco3000 VPN Concentrator (also
 known as Cisco's EasyVPN equipment). vpnc runs entirely in userspace
 and does not require kernel modules except of the tun driver to
 communicate with the network layer.
 .
 It supports most of the features needed to establish connection to the
 VPN concentrator: MD5 and SHA1 hashes, 3DES and AES ciphers, PFS and
 various IKE DH group settings.

root at nulled:~#


> 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.

Exim is a lot more popular in Europe than the US for sure... My MTA of
choice is qmail, but it does require care and feeding. It is not, as you
say, difficult to configure once you understand it's base files and what
they mean.

> Any suggestions on a pop3 server?

If you go with Qmail it comes with qmail-pop3d which is pretty solid.
qpopper is a nice one too. For IMAP I like courier.

> And I'm still not clear on setting up an email account.  Is that handled through the pop3 server?

That really depends on the implementation.

> I saw port 587 was used in sendmail also.  Is that a standard alternative to port 25?

For outbound mail, yes.

~Ben
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