WARNING: this is a question-rich and clue-poor post. I apologize if I rehash
some of the stuff that's been going around this list. I've yet to install
e-smith and had some thoughts/questions as I researched it.
0) Any archive for this list?
1) Re: virus scanning, are the developers aware of the scan4virus
program[1]? It requires a simple patch to qmail (QMAILQUEUE, very stable),
maildrop (a filtering program like procmail, but *sane*), and a perl module.
I have not used it, but I have heard rave reviews from those who have. Or is
there another reason to use smtpd in front of qmail?
2) Would it be worth using a more-patched version of qmail? I refer to Bruce
Guenter's qmail+patches RPMs[2]; see the web page for a list of features.
Most importantly are the RBL and CR/LF fix.
3) Any chance of ditching BIND for something like djbdns[3]? It looks like
e-smith 4.0 is using 8.2.2P3; isn't that version still privy to some
problems? Also, BIND is kinda like sendmail WRT security concerns, whereas
djbdns, written by Dan Berstein, author of qmail, is bulletproof. Plus, the
config files are *far* easier to parse and template-ize.
4) Some of the licensing issues may be moot now or soon. RSA will expire in
the US in about a month, allowing you to ship crypto code to the US. (You're
in Canada, right?) MySQL has been GPL'd. :)
I'm *really* impressed with the e-smith stuff. I do a bit of system
integration for folks, but I usually piece-meal the stuff together. For
instance, I usually use qmail+patches, ezmlm from tarball, vpopmail[4] for
single-UID qmail virtual hosting, qmailadmin[5] for a web-based vpopmail
interface, &c. However, I really like the idea of the unified interface, of
a pre-packaged system, and so on.
Thanks for the help!
[1] http://www.geocities.com/jhaar/scan4virus/
[2] http://em.ca/~bruceg/qmail+patches/
[3] http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html (official)
http://www.djbdns.com/ (user-maintained)
[4] http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/
[5] http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/
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