Re: [Newbie] Howto setup mailserver??
From: Keith Matthews (invalid_at_frequentous.co.uk)
Date: 08/30/05
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:19:12 +0100
A. van Leeuwen wrote:
> I've just started to setup a OpenBSD server on an old laptop. I want to
> use it as webserver and as mailserver. I already managed to setup a
> webserver with MySQL and PHP, and can reach it from the internet (with
> help of the services from www.dyndns.org :) ). Now I want to setup my own
> mailserver with spamfilter (and where my three PC's can get there mail
> from (via Outlook). I've read that Sendmail is better not used because of
> security issues.
The OBSD version of Sendmail is fairly safe, but it is not the easiest of
programs to configure, especially if you want to do anything beyond a very
basic setup. If you've not got any experience of mail servers then I
advise chosing something else (unless you really want to tackle a seriously
steep learning curve that is). OTOH a real Sendmail guru can make it do
things that no other MTA is capable of, but reaching guru status takes a
lot of work.
>I've read that there are other progams like Postfix and
> qmail (and proberly many others). My questions:
Not many people would recommend qmail these days, largely because the author
insists on a rather strange licence. Also it is no longer maintained by the
original author and several features now regarded as vital are only
available by 3rd-part patches which may not be coded to the same standard.
The more popular alternatives to Sendmail are postfix and exim. Both are
still under active development with very active support communities.
> - which program's best to use?
How long is a piece of string. Both are good, both have good security
records, both are used by some seriously heavy traffic sites, they are
configured in very different ways. One of those ways may be incompatible
with the way your mind works.
> - are there some good howto's on the web for those program's?
>
www.postfix.org has a lot of info as has www.exim.org.
My feeling is that postfix has the better introductory documentation while
exim has the better reference documentation. As ever YMMV.
There are several books on Postfix, some of which are very good. Not sure
about Exim.
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