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