Antken, > From: "Steve Fink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 08:45:53 -0700 > <snip>
A mail server *must* have persistent storage (*more* than a RAM-disk), the RFCs more or less dictate that. The nice thing about a LEAF is that the only persistent storage is physically write protected! If you go adding a hard disk as your mail spool you are starting down the slippery slope that leads to insecurity... > Best solution is running a mail server behind the firewall with > ports 25 and 110 port forwarded to the mail server. That way the > only exposure to the mail server is those specific ports. I quite agree (do you need to forward 110, I don't have to?), I have done this at work (first an isdn LRP, now an ADSL LEAF) and at home (ADSL LEAF). Works a treat. > Always bearing in mind that if the mail daemons you choose have > security holes these could be utilized to penetrate your network. That is why I use 'Postfix' <www.postfix.org>. Up to now it has never had an exploitable security failure (yes, it did have a minor DOS exploit for a while). It is faster and *much* easier to configure than Sendmail, and Postfix's author Wietse Venema is much friendlier than QMail's Dan Bernstein! ;-) > Best of luck, > > Steve Greetings Mark Plowman _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
