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kashani <kashani-list <at> badapple.net> writes: |
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> I've been running a Gentoo mail server for either work or personal use |
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> and usually both since 2001. No real problems, but you do have to watch |
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> some updates especially sasl and courier. |
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OK. |
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> My current system is |
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> Postfix-2.5 At minimum I'd use Postfix-2.2 which has the better syntax |
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> for your virtual statements. |
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> Postgrey for greylisting, had some issues with sqlgrey. |
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> PostfixAdmin, because using phpmyadmin to manage your accounts and |
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> domains is futile. I'm still on 2.1 and need to check out the newer |
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> version. Requires PHP and a webserver. |
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> courier-imap and cyrus-sasl. Thinking about moving to Dovecot since you |
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> can use dovecot-sasl with Postfix under Gentoo. |
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> Mysql5 |
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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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> 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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Drop a line to the list, when you have your wiki page up and I'll follow |
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it and make some notes on the process of settting up a postfix mail server |
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on gentoo.Maybe you could fix up this wiki?(or build another?): |
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http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Postfix |
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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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excellent notes! |
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James |
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