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James wrote: |
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>> It's fully virtual, supports smtp and imap over ssl, sasl, skipped TLS, |
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>> and easy to manage. I do not recommend the Gentoo Virtual How-to, it's |
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>> ancient and silly. |
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> Is this the page your refer to? |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml |
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Yep and the things I don't like are: |
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1. password stored in clear text |
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2. complicated use of pam_mysql rather than using sasl's DBD layer directly |
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3. No admin interface |
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4. Have to edit /etc/postfix/main.cf to add domains rather than rely on |
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the database lookup. |
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5. Lack of useful troubleshooting section |
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>> I used to have a how-to on gentoo-wiki which I need to recreate. Maybe |
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>> this weekend. |
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> Very cool. |
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>> In regards to stability... don't update right away. When Postfix 2.6 |
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>> comes out, give it a month. Or play with it in a virtual server. Same |
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>> with Mysql 5.1. Or whatever. I've run three separate companies on Gentoo |
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>> and never had much of an issue though I always had a test/stage/qa |
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>> environment of some sort. Also keep an eye on the forums and this mail |
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>> list. That'll usually give you a heads up when an update isn't quite right. |
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> Well all of this is great news. I've pretty much decided to build |
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> a postgtres mail server, mostly like what you have outlined.. I'm likely |
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> to set up a second, duplicate machine for testing. |
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I've never done it with Postgres, but I know PostfixAdmin supports it so |
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it shouldn't be too hard. I think Steveb had it working at somepoint. |
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> Do you use a regular gentoo kernel, hardened setup, or what packages to |
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> keep the mail server tightly secure? |
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I generally found that keeping Webapps and users off you mail server was |
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good enough security. Also when building most of this stuff years ago |
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the hardened kernels were a bit painful. Probably much easier now. |
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kashani |