Re: Mail server on Redhat Linux
El Jue 11 Sep 2003 09:50, Peram's List escribió: Hi, Im looking to setup a mail server. I'd appreciate if you can let me know what are all the software that I need to know to set up an IMAP/POP server. I have the option of setting up Exchange but I dont want to do that, I'm looking for a groupware software on Redhat. Just the link! http://www.opengroupware.org/ I know that Postfix is a good MTA software. I'd appreciate your comments and suggestions and any good links to setting up a mail server on Redhat. rpm -Uvh postfix-xx.rpm After that, go to http://www.postfix.org and read the docs and examples. -- Porqué usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera, si podés usar PostgreSQL? - Martín Marqués |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Programador, Administrador, DBA | Centro de Telematica Universidad Nacional del Litoral - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server - Sendmail + IPOP3
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 16:29, Edward Dekkers wrote: From memory you can just type IMAP instead of POP3 there? Or am I misunderstanding your question? --- Edward Dekkers (Director) Depends on the version of Outlook Express - most versions allow you to choose an IMAP server along with heaps others - including HTTP... But hey, it's Micr$loth - who knows... -- Tue Apr 1 18:00:01 EST 2003 18:00:01 up 11 days, 5:47, 3 users, load average: 0.16, 0.26, 0.27 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. -- Jules Henri Poincar'e -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Mail Server - Sendmail + IPOP3 --Solved!
I seemed to have solved my problem. And having solved the problem I can re-state my original question better! 1) Sendmail was sending mail out of my domain ok. 2) But not sending to local accounts in the domain. 3) No mail was being received for any account in the domain I had not set up the domain for wich my mail server is responsible. in VER 5.2 it was set in /etc/mail/sendmail.? In version 8.0 it is set in /etc/mail/local-host-names Thanks for the input. My first time on any mailing list and I am impressed by what can be achieved, with everone contributing. The sum of the parts etc... Great Stuff. Gavin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mail Server - Sendmail + IPOP3 On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 16:29, Edward Dekkers wrote: From memory you can just type IMAP instead of POP3 there? Or am I misunderstanding your question? --- Edward Dekkers (Director) Depends on the version of Outlook Express - most versions allow you to choose an IMAP server along with heaps others - including HTTP... But hey, it's Micr$loth - who knows... -- Tue Apr 1 18:00:01 EST 2003 18:00:01 up 11 days, 5:47, 3 users, load average: 0.16, 0.26, 0.27 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. -- Jules Henri Poincar'e -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server - Sendmail + IPOP3
Gavin Mellors wrote: Hi All I am managing a mail server (midterm newbie). Server is an Intel Brownsville m/board, 256K Ram. Clients all using O/Express to get mail of POP server. Previous version of Redhat 5.2 and 7.0; had a special user group popuser. When running userconf I could create my users as mail only accounts. when adding accounts I could select this group as there default group. Mail was delivered to there folders wich they could access from their Win98 w/stations using outlook express. You can do something similar with the box by setting up either /bin/false as their shell or setting /bin/rbash (RESTRICTED shell) and configuring their environment with just the ability to change their password. The popuser group is'nt present in Linux 8.0 ?? I created a popuser group, and added my users to this group as there default group. My users are not receiving mail??. Postmaster(me) is getting error reports : MAIL UNDELIVERABLE ... reason 553 5.3.5 system config error. By default on RedHat Linux 8.0 Sendmail only listens on 127.0.0.1 Try running netstat -nap | grep LISTEN | grep 25 and see if there is a line in there for sendmail on either 0.0.0.0 or your LAN NIC address, if not edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and then follow the instructions in the comments for both enabling sendmail on the LAN NIC and using m4 to convert your sendmail.mc into a sendmail.cf Mail is leaving server. Not being recieved by my users. I am finding the transition from RedHat 5.2 and Redhat 7.0 to version 8.0 extremely frustrating. ...up2date spends +- hour getting RPMS, and then bombs out with bad CRC, (64k leased diginet line connection). RedHat had problems today because of their release of the RedHat 9 iso's and their bandwidth was jammed. You might have better luck tomorrow. In my experience using up2date is a breeze, and a joy. ...IPOP3 service as registered with XINETD is off by default.(Thought I had solved my prob. when Ifound this one. The command line network config tools, well where are they. I have edited (/etc/network) to set up address details. (From within XWindows the network config is easy). What happened to netconf Try neat instead. I think it is much better. Also, take a look at IMAP. You might like that better than POP. -Ben. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Mail Server - Sendmail + IPOP3
Thanks for that Info w.r netstat, Ben, will try it. Will seek out neat as well. With regards IMAP, I did consider it, but how do I set up my outlook express clients to receive there mail using IMAP ? Under my clients O/Express-Account settings-Connection-server types-incoming server: only POP3 (PORT 110) option is availible Does IMAP also use port 110 ?? I am using SWAT to manage my samba installation, what a pleasure. On my RedHat 7.0 installation I had Inflex mail scanner/mimeripper installed, also a pleasure to work with. Regards Gavin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ben Russo Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 2:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mail Server - Sendmail + IPOP3 Gavin Mellors wrote: Hi All I am managing a mail server (midterm newbie). Server is an Intel Brownsville m/board, 256K Ram. Clients all using O/Express to get mail of POP server. Previous version of Redhat 5.2 and 7.0; had a special user group popuser. When running userconf I could create my users as mail only accounts. when adding accounts I could select this group as there default group. Mail was delivered to there folders wich they could access from their Win98 w/stations using outlook express. You can do something similar with the box by setting up either /bin/false as their shell or setting /bin/rbash (RESTRICTED shell) and configuring their environment with just the ability to change their password. The popuser group is'nt present in Linux 8.0 ?? I created a popuser group, and added my users to this group as there default group. My users are not receiving mail??. Postmaster(me) is getting error reports : MAIL UNDELIVERABLE ... reason 553 5.3.5 system config error. By default on RedHat Linux 8.0 Sendmail only listens on 127.0.0.1 Try running netstat -nap | grep LISTEN | grep 25 and see if there is a line in there for sendmail on either 0.0.0.0 or your LAN NIC address, if not edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and then follow the instructions in the comments for both enabling sendmail on the LAN NIC and using m4 to convert your sendmail.mc into a sendmail.cf Mail is leaving server. Not being recieved by my users. I am finding the transition from RedHat 5.2 and Redhat 7.0 to version 8.0 extremely frustrating. ...up2date spends +- hour getting RPMS, and then bombs out with bad CRC, (64k leased diginet line connection). RedHat had problems today because of their release of the RedHat 9 iso's and their bandwidth was jammed. You might have better luck tomorrow. In my experience using up2date is a breeze, and a joy. ...IPOP3 service as registered with XINETD is off by default.(Thought I had solved my prob. when Ifound this one. The command line network config tools, well where are they. I have edited (/etc/network) to set up address details. (From within XWindows the network config is easy). What happened to netconf Try neat instead. I think it is much better. Also, take a look at IMAP. You might like that better than POP. -Ben. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server - Sendmail + IPOP3
With regards IMAP, I did consider it, but how do I set up my outlook express clients to receive there mail using IMAP ? Under my clients O/Express-Account settings-Connection-server types-incoming server: only POP3 (PORT 110) option is availible Does IMAP also use port 110 ?? From memory you can just type IMAP instead of POP3 there? Or am I misunderstanding your question? Regards, --- Edward Dekkers (Director) Triple D Computer Services P/L -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Mail Server - Sendmail + IPOP3
Hi Edward You are right, when setting up a new mail account with outlook express the option of pop3, imap or http protocols are presented in a drop down list by the wizard; under select INCOMING MAIL SERVER. Will try this! With an existing account, it does'nt seem to be able to changed, hence my question. I am sure if I poke around in the registry I will find the incoming server option for the mail account and maybe I can change it there!! Thanks for the help. Gavin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Edward Dekkers Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 8:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mail Server - Sendmail + IPOP3 With regards IMAP, I did consider it, but how do I set up my outlook express clients to receive there mail using IMAP ? Under my clients O/Express-Account settings-Connection-server types-incoming server: only POP3 (PORT 110) option is availible Does IMAP also use port 110 ?? From memory you can just type IMAP instead of POP3 there? Or am I misunderstanding your question? Regards, --- Edward Dekkers (Director) Triple D Computer Services P/L -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Campbell wrote: | I have intermediate experience with Linux. Even less with mail servers. | I'm running a RedHat 8 server that needs to accept mail from the world as | our primary mailserver. I'm debating as to whether I should use postfix or | sendmail (or something else). Anyone have any pros/cons to either of these? | I'd like something simple, secure and have the option of doing some type of | spam catching with some type of package (open source, free / cheep) that | integrates easily. Any and all help appreciated! | | Christian | SNIP Hello, I am not an email expert either but I had used Postfix with AMaViS, SpamAssassin, F-prot and Horde/IMP for webmail with *very* good results. Hope this helps - -- Francisco Neira B. /~\ The ASCII Administrador de Red\ / Ribbon Campaign Defensoria del PuebloX Against Lima, Peru, -05:00 UTC / \ HTML Email PGP Pub Key at http://portal.defensoria.gob.pe/~fneira/llavepublica.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+X7MXkGxqImhGCe4RAghXAJ48G5KN8t7G1yj1nDPPa2CVuGgbzACgmR12 O+2sWGQSww+GMMXrVDqb7bU= =VXaN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server
Christian Campbell said: I have intermediate experience with Linux. Even less with mail servers. I'm running a RedHat 8 server that needs to accept mail from the world as our primary mailserver. I'm debating as to whether I should use postfix or sendmail (or something else). Anyone have any pros/cons to either of these? I'd like something simple, secure and have the option of doing some type of spam catching with some type of package (open source, free / cheep) that integrates easily. Any and all help appreciated! I've used sendmail 8.8.x, 8.9.x, 8.11.x as well as Postfix 1.1.x, and qmail(forgot the version). postfix is my favorite. It is fairly simple to configure, pretty secure, and has a ton of anti spam stuff built right in. I stopped using sendmail since it was getting increasingly complicated, and to bugs in the bleeding edge debian packages about a year ago when I tried to migrate from 8.11.x to 8.12.x. Currently my main setup is Postfix+LDAP+Spamassassin+Sanitizer, I have setup other systems with Postfix+LDAP+amavis, and I spent probably a hundred hours going through spam messages over the past year or so writing filters for postfix's regexp header checker. Newer versions of postfix can check the body of messages as well. Integration of spamassassin with postfix was easy, for me at least. It wasn't as simple as dropping in a script and having it run but by my experience it was easy(easy in comparison to spending a full day tryin to get sendmail 8.12.x to compile/configure with amavis). My first try it probably took an hour, which including fetching newer versions of spamassassin, sanitizer and libnet-smtp I think it was, configuring it, and testing it. Running spamassassin+sanitizer on all messages DRAMATICALLY increases the load on the system. Probably by a factor of 500 or more. My home mail server is a p3-800 1GB ram with dual 100GB WD(8mb cache) drives in raid1, and it takes on average 3-5 seconds to deliver a message, it can take much longer if the message is really big. If you were to put virus scanning on top of that, add another 2-3 seconds per message depending on your system. There is a way of reducing load by using the spamd(?) spamassasin daemon but I still hear there are some potential security issues with it, so i haven't tried it. but by itself, with no addons whatsoever postfix has a ton of ways to reduce spam. Most of which cannot be used on high traffic mailservers since it creates a very high number of false positives unfortunately. I just started using postfix as my primary MTA almost a year ago. nate -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server
You'll get lots of advise. I like sendmail. It's easy to configure too. You can use Webmin also to make it even easier. You can cut down on spam by using rbl's and/or add SpamAssassin. JAV On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 13:55, Christian Campbell wrote: I have intermediate experience with Linux. Even less with mail servers. I'm running a RedHat 8 server that needs to accept mail from the world as our primary mailserver. I'm debating as to whether I should use postfix or sendmail (or something else). Anyone have any pros/cons to either of these? I'd like something simple, secure and have the option of doing some type of spam catching with some type of package (open source, free / cheep) that integrates easily. Any and all help appreciated! Christian Christian P. Campbell Systems Engineer Information Technology Department - Systems Bruegger's Enterprises Desk: (802) 652-9270 Cell: (802)734-5023 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key available via PGP keyserver One of the most overlooked advantages to computers is... If they do foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.-- Joe Martin -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:55:20PM -0500, Christian Campbell wrote: I have intermediate experience with Linux. Even less with mail servers. I'm running a RedHat 8 server that needs to accept mail from the world as our primary mailserver. I'm debating as to whether I should use postfix or sendmail (or something else). Anyone have any pros/cons to either of these? I'd like something simple, secure and have the option of doing some type of spam catching with some type of package (open source, free / cheep) that integrates easily. Any and all help appreciated! We run sendmail at work with dozens of domains and tens of thousands of messages per day spread over 2 Linux systems. Those servers then fire the external mail into 2 internal Linux servers, also running sendmail, which in turn feed out to the rest of the internal systems. The stuff just works. At home I run sendmail supporting 3 very small domains and mostly mailing list and personal mail. It works just fine. sendmail is not hard to configure, and in its current form is fairly secure. There are multiple anti-spam options in both postfix and sendmail and I don't believe that either is better in this regard. Blackhole sites are your first level of defense, followed by things like spamassassin (may be acceptable for home use but not for an enterprise) and anti-virus tools. Postfix rules finish off the filtering. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 12:55, Christian Campbell wrote: I'm running a RedHat 8 server that needs to accept mail from the world as our primary mailserver. I'm debating as to whether I should use postfix or sendmail (or something else). Anyone have any pros/cons to either of these? Either/or is fine. I've heard postfix is fast, secure, and easy to use and configure. Sendmail has always worked well for me too. Cryptic configuration, but works well. I personally advise you to stay the hell away from qmail. Fast and secure, yes. But if you so much as sneeze you have to recompile, POP-before-SMTP and SMTP AUTH are only available as add-on patches, and the mailing list is snotty and unfriendly as hell. Sheesh. I'd like something simple, secure and have the option of doing some type of spam catching with some type of package (open source, free / cheep) that integrates easily. Any and all help appreciated! I've just started looking at how spamassassin works, and hope to have it implemented soon. It's included in RedHat 8.0, too. Heard wonderful things about it. -- Rodolfo J. Paiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server
Christian Campbell wrote: | I have intermediate experience with Linux. Even less with mail servers. | I'm running a RedHat 8 server that needs to accept mail from the world as | our primary mailserver. I'm debating as to whether I should use postfix or | sendmail (or something else). Anyone have any pros/cons to either of these? | I'd like something simple, secure and have the option of doing some type of | spam catching with some type of package (open source, free / cheep) that | integrates easily. Any and all help appreciated! | | Christian | Hello! I am using sendmail and except for some little problems that I have with firewall (I am trying to solve them and I probably will) everything works fine. You can use sendmail to receive and send mail to and from the world. You have to set the MX point at DNS to you domain and to avoid SPAM you must put something like this in the the file /etc/mail/access: localhost.localdomain RELAY localhost RELAY 127.0.0.1 RELAY 200.19.109 RELAY 200.19.109 is the ip class I use. You must use yours. Eng. Deleo Paulo Ribeiro Junior 55 48 231-1637 55 48 233-0081 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 14055069 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:55:20PM -0500, Christian Campbell wrote: I have intermediate experience with Linux. Even less with mail servers. I'm running a RedHat 8 server that needs to accept mail from the world as our primary mailserver. I'm debating as to whether I should use postfix or sendmail (or something else). Anyone have any pros/cons to either of these? I'd like something simple, secure and have the option of doing some type of spam catching with some type of package (open source, free / cheep) that integrates easily. Any and all help appreciated! I cast my vote to Postfix. Easy to understand configuration files and a lot of UCE filtering capabilities built right in . In addition the Postfix mailing list is a fairly friendly list when asking a question. /jft -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server
sendmail is great. it's what handles most of the world's mail and there's a reason for it. configurability and security used to be issues with it, but it's been solid for a long time now. On February 28, 2003 01:55 pm, Christian Campbell wrote: I have intermediate experience with Linux. Even less with mail servers. I'm running a RedHat 8 server that needs to accept mail from the world as our primary mailserver. I'm debating as to whether I should use postfix or sendmail (or something else). Anyone have any pros/cons to either of these? I'd like something simple, secure and have the option of doing some type of spam catching with some type of package (open source, free / cheep) that integrates easily. Any and all help appreciated! Christian Christian P. Campbell Systems Engineer Information Technology Department - Systems Bruegger's Enterprises Desk: (802) 652-9270 Cell: (802)734-5023 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key available via PGP keyserver One of the most overlooked advantages to computers is... If they do foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.-- Joe Martin -- mr. ghandi, what do you think of western civilization? i think it would be a good idea. - reporter to mahatma ghandi -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server
I like Postfix. Postfix is: super-easy to configure very secure (Wietse Venema is one of the security gurus) supported by IBM very, very fast compatible with Sendmail alias files and command-line Jon On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Christian Campbell wrote: I have intermediate experience with Linux. Even less with mail servers. I'm running a RedHat 8 server that needs to accept mail from the world as our primary mailserver. I'm debating as to whether I should use postfix or sendmail (or something else). Anyone have any pros/cons to either of these? I'd like something simple, secure and have the option of doing some type of spam catching with some type of package (open source, free / cheep) that integrates easily. Any and all help appreciated! Christian Christian P. Campbell Systems Engineer Information Technology Department - Systems Bruegger's Enterprises Desk: (802) 652-9270 Cell: (802)734-5023 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key available via PGP keyserver One of the most overlooked advantages to computers is... If they do foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.-- Joe Martin -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail server(SIMS) virus scanning
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 18:58, tugsuu wrote: Hi all, I need a mail server virus scanning software. We use a SIMS(Sun Internet Mail Server) on Solaris 7 on Intel platform. I have tryed several virus scanning software for Solaris 7. But all of them are for Solaris on sparc paltform. Please help me to find a mail server virus scanning software./works with sims on solaris on inte lplatform/ Thank you for attention, tugsuu Put a linux box in front of your mail server, and use Sophos, or McAfee, or Panda, or something. js -- VB programmers ask why no one takes them seriously, it's somewhat akin to a McDonalds manager asking employees why they don't take their 'career' seriously. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: mail server virus scanning
RH7.2, kernel-2.4.18-19.7, sendmail-8.11.6-3 I installed MailScanner and F-Prot from the rpm's, and it seemed to go without any problem. Here is what I don't understand. Razor, spamsassassin, and MailScanner all seem to check for spam. Are they different and should all be used? If so, why? Thanks. Irwin Razor is an excellent database of spam that spamassassin can use to check incoming mail against. Spamassassin is a superb program based on a set of rules to provide points (demerits) to a message depending on how many of the spam identification rules it matches. You then set a threshold and screen out messages that exceed the threshold. Think of MailScanner as a high level manager of the process. MailScanner uses sendmail to receive your messages into an incoming queue. It then calls whatever virus scanning engines you've installed to check the messages for virii. While it will do its own spam scanning it is recommneded that you use spamassassin. MailScanner integrates seamlessly with it. If a virus is found MailScanner will do what you want with it (ie quarintine the message, strip the virus and deliver the message, etc). If the message is to be delivered MailScanner dumps it into the outgoing queue for sendmail for delivery to its final host destination. In short, yes you should install and use them all. They compliment each other. Gerry -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: mail server virus scanning
On Monday 13 January 2003 07:00 am, you wrote: In short, yes you should install and use them all. They compliment each other. Gerry Thank you. Since installing MailScanner less than 24 hours ago, it has already been working hard. I will install Razor and Spamassassin. Irwin -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: mail server virus scanning
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Michael George wrote: I have a friend who has asked me to help them replace the Windoze2000 server in their office with a Linux system. While they aren't using 2000 as a mail server, they will be with Linux. They asked me about virus scanning incoming email on the server and I've never done that before... I've found several projects at freshmeat that claim to work with sendmail and do virus scanning. I was hoping maybe some of the users on this list could give me their recommendations to help me narrow the search. We'll be using a POP3 server for the windoze clients to get their mail and sendmail for receiving incoming mail. Initially the server will be for internal mail only, but eventually, the ISP will be the initial recipient of all company mail and then throw it over the wall to the internal sendmail server (which will only accept SMTP connections from internal hosts or the single IP address outside. If this makes a difference... Thanks for all your 2¢-worth (in advance :) -Michael I suggest that you make sure you have your mail server working properly. Next install razor and then spamassassin. Those should go in very easily. This will take care of flagging spam. Next you should check out MailScanner. MailScanner works seamlessly with all of the above. It doesn't require any changes to sendmail/Exim and can be installed with an rpm. You will need to select a virus engine and MailScanner works with about a dozen of them. I highly recommend F-Prot. F-Prot is free for home/non-commerical use and for commercial users only charges per server. The other virus scanners charge per seat and it can get very expensive. They update their virus files every few days and MailScanner provides a cron script to download them automatically. There's also a great mailscanner-mrtg rpm that will allow you to view several graphs of your setup using your web browser. You can see server load, # of messages arriving, size of messages, ethernet traffic, cpu %, etc. This is for each day, week, month, and year. This may sound like a lot of work but if you do it one step at a time it pretty easy. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: mail server virus scanning
I have found that using Exiscan with Exim as well as the Sophie/Sophos Antivirus combination on the relays has been a wonderful tool to stop this virus menance. As well as using Spamassassin as a tool is wonderful but I don't know how well Razor works anymore it used to be a big thing but its now something that is up in the air. Cheers, Aly. On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 13:33, Gerry Doris wrote: On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Michael George wrote: I have a friend who has asked me to help them replace the Windoze2000 server in their office with a Linux system. While they aren't using 2000 as a mail server, they will be with Linux. They asked me about virus scanning incoming email on the server and I've never done that before... I've found several projects at freshmeat that claim to work with sendmail and do virus scanning. I was hoping maybe some of the users on this list could give me their recommendations to help me narrow the search. We'll be using a POP3 server for the windoze clients to get their mail and sendmail for receiving incoming mail. Initially the server will be for internal mail only, but eventually, the ISP will be the initial recipient of all company mail and then throw it over the wall to the internal sendmail server (which will only accept SMTP connections from internal hosts or the single IP address outside. If this makes a difference... Thanks for all your 2¢-worth (in advance :) -Michael I suggest that you make sure you have your mail server working properly. Next install razor and then spamassassin. Those should go in very easily. This will take care of flagging spam. Next you should check out MailScanner. MailScanner works seamlessly with all of the above. It doesn't require any changes to sendmail/Exim and can be installed with an rpm. You will need to select a virus engine and MailScanner works with about a dozen of them. I highly recommend F-Prot. F-Prot is free for home/non-commerical use and for commercial users only charges per server. The other virus scanners charge per seat and it can get very expensive. They update their virus files every few days and MailScanner provides a cron script to download them automatically. There's also a great mailscanner-mrtg rpm that will allow you to view several graphs of your setup using your web browser. You can see server load, # of messages arriving, size of messages, ethernet traffic, cpu %, etc. This is for each day, week, month, and year. This may sound like a lot of work but if you do it one step at a time it pretty easy. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Aly S.P Dharshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student and System Administrator ORS Servers A good speech is like a good dress that's short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the subject -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: mail server virus scanning
Mailscanner - www.mailscanner.info You need your own Antivirus (e.g., Sophos, McAfee, F-Prot, etc). It also does SPAM. Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Michael George Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 3:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mail server virus scanning I have a friend who has asked me to help them replace the Windoze2000 server in their office with a Linux system. While they aren't using 2000 as a mail server, they will be with Linux. They asked me about virus scanning incoming email on the server and I've never done that before... I've found several projects at freshmeat that claim to work with sendmail and do virus scanning. I was hoping maybe some of the users on this list could give me their recommendations to help me narrow the search. We'll be using a POP3 server for the windoze clients to get their mail and sendmail for receiving incoming mail. Initially the server will be for internal mail only, but eventually, the ISP will be the initial recipient of all company mail and then throw it over the wall to the internal sendmail server (which will only accept SMTP connections from internal hosts or the single IP address outside. If this makes a difference... Thanks for all your 2¢-worth (in advance :) -Michael -- In light of the terrorist attack on the U.S.: They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: mail server virus scanning
On Sunday 12 January 2003 12:33 pm, you wrote: ~ I suggest that you make sure you have your mail server working properly. Next install razor and then spamsassassin. Those should go in very easily. This will take care of flagging spam. Next you should check out MailScanner. MailScanner works seamlessly with all of the above. It doesn't require any changes to sendmail/Exim and can be installed with an rpm. You will need to select a virus engine and MailScanner works with about a dozen of them. I highly recommend F-Prot. F-Prot is free for home/non-commerical use and for commercial users only charges per server. The other virus scanners charge per seat and it can get very expensive. They update their virus files every few days and MailScanner provides a cron script to download them automatically. RH7.2, kernel-2.4.18-19.7, sendmail-8.11.6-3 I installed MailScanner and F-Prot from the rpm's, and it seemed to go without any problem. Here is what I don't understand. Razor, spamsassassin, and MailScanner all seem to check for spam. Are they different and should all be used? If so, why? Thanks. Irwin -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server for home network
EW - fetchmail on the Linux system gets the mail from the ISP. I EW schedule EW this via cron. EW - MTA (sendmail in my case) EW - Fetchmail can automatically kick things over to sendmail EW - Sendmail automatically runs procmail EW - Procmail does my filtering. EW - On the Windows desktops I use Eudora (POP3) and OE (Imap). My wife's EW system is Eudora with POP3 (Eudora is a great POP client but a shitty EW IMAP client). I use OE for IMAP (I'd use Eudora if it could). My EW reason for IMAP is that I read my mail both from Linux via ssh and EW from my XP desktop. With procmail, my mailing list e-mail is automatically EW filed into folders - something that works with IMAP but not POP3. EW On my Linux system, I run my DNS and time server. Sendmail is EW configured to allow relaying while the network is down so that we can EW send e-mail if my cable connection is unavailable - sendmail nicely EW delivers the mail with the link comes back up. This would work for EW you EW - just have sendmail process the queue in your ifup script. Ed, Are you fetching from a single ISP mailbox? Does that mailbox contain mail for multiple users on your home network? ...Jake -- Jake Colman Principia Partners LLC Phone: (201) 209-2467 Harborside Financial Center Fax: (201) 946-0320 902 Plaza Two E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jersey City, NJ 07311 www.principiapartners.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Mail Server for home network [THANKS]
Well, assuming I actually do work out how to implement all this, I am settled on: - Fetchmail - Postfix (thanks to comments regarding this one) - Procmail I'm not set on how to achieve dial on demand functionality. Might pick up on advice from Edward Dekkers to use a combination of wvdial and pppd, although diald looks good in principle. Lastly, delivery to the win boxes requires more research on my part, using advice received to date from the list. I suspect google will get a fair bit of use in the next few days. Thanks for your interest. Roland. -Original Message- From: Gary [mailto:gary-list-redhat;mygirlfriday.info] Sent: Wednesday, 6 November 2002 6:24 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mail Server for home network [THANKS] On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:33:47PM +1300 or thereabouts, Roland Hill wrote: Thanks to those who replied. You knowledgeable types really do make a difference to those of us who are trying to get up to speed. Now for the implementation phase. Well, what did you finally select ? g -- Best regards, Gary sed '/^[when][coders]/!d /^...[discover].$/d /^..[real].[code]$/!d ' /usr/share/dict/words # This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by MailMarshal For more information please visit www.marshalsoftware.com # -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server for home network [THANKS]
I'm not set on how to achieve dial on demand functionality. Might pick up on advice from Edward Dekkers to use a combination of wvdial and pppd, although diald looks good in principle. Like I said, don't get me wrong - I LOVE diald. Just haven't been able to get it working on recent versions of RedHat. If you manage to get it working (worth a shot), I'd love your notes on how you did it. Regards, --- Edward Dekkers (Director) Triple D Computer Services P/L -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server for home network
Do you have a static IP with your dial-up connection? You need a static so that you can point the MX record for your domain to your Linux box. (unless you are queing the mail somewhere else and sucking it downstream) Once past this hurdle, it is pretty straight forward: Configure your MTA to allow your Win98 systems to relay, configure your MTA with your domain(s) (which domains it will accept for delivery). Configure your pop3 service to start at boot or whatever you plan to use. If you look at the contents of /etc/mail, using the sendmail.mc macro file, building a working sendmail.cf has gotten pretty easy. Also, I am sure there are a boatload of HOWTO's out there if you search on google. Hope this helps, CC Roland Hill wrote: Hi List, Being a new user, I would appreciate if you could kick me in the right direction on the following issue. My simple peer to peer network consists of 1 x RH7.3 box and 2 x Win98 boxes. SAMBA is configured and operational. I have a dial up, single account with my ISP. Simplistically, I would like to receive email, filter the content, then direct the email to the end user based on the filtering rules. I would also like to be able send email internally from user to user (my wife I may never speak again!!). I have done some research and I think the following, once configured, will work, but as Linux is so configurable, advice from the List would be appreciated. Pieces to my puzzle as I see it are: -Diald to have dial on demand functionality with the modem -Fetchmail to get the mail -MTA (sendmail, postfix, qmail etc) to deliver -Promail to do the filtering -qpopper to allow the win box users to receive the messages Again, input on the architecture would be appreciated. If some applications are more new user friendly than others then please advise. If there are HOW-to's (I have some already), then kick me in that direction too. Appreciate your input. Regards, Roland Hill # This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by MailMarshal For more information please visit www.marshalsoftware.com # -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Mail Server for home network [THANKS]
Thanks to those who replied. You knowledgeable types really do make a difference to those of us who are trying to get up to speed. Now for the implementation phase. Regards, Roland Hill # This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by MailMarshal For more information please visit www.marshalsoftware.com # -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server for home network [THANKS]
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:33:47PM +1300 or thereabouts, Roland Hill wrote: Thanks to those who replied. You knowledgeable types really do make a difference to those of us who are trying to get up to speed. Now for the implementation phase. Well, what did you finally select ? g -- Best regards, Gary sed '/^[when][coders]/!d /^...[discover].$/d /^..[real].[code]$/!d ' /usr/share/dict/words -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server for home network
[Oops, in my first attempt at sending this I didn't use my subscribed address. Second try...] On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:45:06AM +1300, Roland Hill wrote: -MTA (sendmail, postfix, qmail etc) to deliver [...] If some applications are more new user friendly than others then please advise. I have been using qmail for sometime now, and as everyone says it is a bit odd to set up and documentation can be confusing, and it seems to work well. The only problems I have had have been someplace other than in qmail itself. So far, so good. However, I suggest you look carefully at postfix before going with qmail. I have heard it is comparable and as safe as qmail, but the real win is that I think postfix is included in RH distributions now. It is a pain to have a non-standard installation where I have to get parts from someplace else. And then when I have a problem I have to wonder whether I have the current version and did I apply that third-party patch to qmail, or was that to ezmlm...? Note that though qmail isn't that bad to install in the first place, a year from when you need to figure out something new you will be annoyed to have to remember what you got from where and where you put it. When you know you have, say, Red Hat 7.3 (a good rev, IMHO), that little 7.3 is a really nice summary of the state of your machine. Put something major like a different mta on there and you have made a major divergence that is something you then have to maintain. If postfix is as good, or nearly as good, as qmail, then I say it wins because of the more practical license. -kb, the Kent who runs qmail, ezmlm, and djbdns, and they all work and they all have that same annoying DJB license that keeps them out of all the Linux distributions. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server for home network
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:45:06AM +1300, Roland Hill wrote: My simple peer to peer network consists of 1 x RH7.3 box and 2 x Win98 boxes. SAMBA is configured and operational. I have a dial up, single account with my ISP. Simplistically, I would like to receive email, filter the content, then direct the email to the end user based on the filtering rules. I would also like to be able send email internally from user to user (my wife I may never speak again!!). I have done some research and I think the following, once configured, will work, but as Linux is so configurable, advice from the List would be appreciated. Pieces to my puzzle as I see it are: -Diald to have dial on demand functionality with the modem -Fetchmail to get the mail -MTA (sendmail, postfix, qmail etc) to deliver -Promail to do the filtering -qpopper to allow the win box users to receive the messages Again, input on the architecture would be appreciated. If some applications are more new user friendly than others then please advise. If there are HOW-to's (I have some already), then kick me in that direction too. I don't have any experience with diald so I'll avoid that step. My home setup is permanent and I grab e-mail from both my local server as well as my ISPs. - fetchmail on the Linux system gets the mail from the ISP. I schedule this via cron. - MTA (sendmail in my case) - Fetchmail can automatically kick things over to sendmail - Sendmail automatically runs procmail - Procmail does my filtering. - On the Windows desktops I use Eudora (POP3) and OE (Imap). My wife's system is Eudora with POP3 (Eudora is a great POP client but a shitty IMAP client). I use OE for IMAP (I'd use Eudora if it could). My reason for IMAP is that I read my mail both from Linux via ssh and from my XP desktop. With procmail, my mailing list e-mail is automatically filed into folders - something that works with IMAP but not POP3. On my Linux system, I run my DNS and time server. Sendmail is configured to allow relaying while the network is down so that we can send e-mail if my cable connection is unavailable - sendmail nicely delivers the mail with the link comes back up. This would work for you - just have sendmail process the queue in your ifup script. Cheers, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server for home network
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:45:06AM +1300 or thereabouts, Roland Hill wrote: Being a new user, I would appreciate if you could kick me in the right direction on the following issue. I have a dial up, single account with my ISP. Simplistically, I would like to receive email, filter the content, then direct the email to the end user based on the filtering rules. I would also like to be able send email internally from user to user (my wife I may never speak again!!). -MTA (sendmail, postfix, qmail etc) to deliver -Promail to do the filtering -qpopper to allow the win box users to receive the messages The only thing I can add, after using Sendmail, Postfix, and now qmail, is that in your situation Postfix would be easiest to set up and run for your needs.. Qmail is my favorite, and I use that, but it is made for full-time, connectivity, and you would need the serialmail patch first for your dialup... In Postfix, you would need just your smarthost for your SMTP relay, which would be your ISPs address, that's just about it. It will hold you mail for delivery in queue until you are on line, then you could do a postfix flush to get it out quickly. The 1 or 2 changes you would need in Postfix, is done in one file, the main.cf file.. That's it. It would handle all your LAN and WAN mail without a problem and with security. It is modular, and faster than the monolithic Sendmail, IMO. www.postfix.org or www.lifewithqmail.org -- Best regards, Gary sed '/^[when][coders]/!d /^...[discover].$/d /^..[real].[code]$/!d ' /usr/share/dict/words -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server for home network
-Diald to have dial on demand functionality with the modem OK, every man and his dog has tackled your main problems, I'll tackle this one. I used diald way back on 5.2 and loved it. Upgraded to 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 and it broke at every step and I had to change heaps of configuration. I haven't managed to run it properly since then. At the time when I was struggling with the 7.x setup (and gave up), diald didn't seem to be maintained any more. If it has been picked up again - terrific. If not - dump it. It really is VERY hard to get right (never used to be but you get that). I now use wvdial and pppd combination on it's own. pppd has dial-on-demand capabilities built in to it, and there are heaps of documents on the web to assist you. Admittedly it has no-where near the flexibility of diald but it does work flawlessly. I miss my filters though. It was great how with diald you could set which individual protocols kept the link up and for how long etc. pppd doesn't support that. Regards, --- Edward Dekkers (Director) Triple D Computer Services P/L -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail server in Red Hat Linux
senthil wrote: Read the HOWtos of Fetchmail and Sendmail before u start off then it will be easy !! try also man fetchmail, and look inside there for info on fetchmailconf, a handy configuration utility. Alan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Mail server in Red Hat Linux
Is it possible? How? look for fetchmail -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Mail server in Red Hat Linux
Yes it is possible. What you are doing is called a catch-all mail account that accept all emails and forward them to one account admin in your case. You will need a software that access the admin account and download messages and copy according to user to users folder. Fetchmail is a good software that is used usually to fetch email to your server from a remote server but I think it should work for local. Check the link below: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/ Al-Juhani [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Hi Group, I am new user of Red Hat Linux. I am installing sendmail as an mail server. I have one question for this. We have mail id on our web site, [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, all mails sent on a.com are coming into inbox box [EMAIL PROTECTED] i.e. a mail sent on [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be in inbox of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now we want to download all mails from there into our red hat linux server and from there I want to distribute mail to user of Red Hat Linux server. i.e mail on [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user1, mail on [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user2. Is it possible? How? Pl. reply soon. Thanks and Regards Rupesh Shah -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail server in Red Hat Linux
If the suggestions below do not give you what you need, you can also do this with sendmail. http://www.sendmail.net/smfaq_virthost_b.shtml On 10/24/02 6:24 AM, aljuhani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes it is possible. What you are doing is called a catch-all mail account that accept all emails and forward them to one account admin in your case. You will need a software that access the admin account and download messages and copy according to user to users folder. Fetchmail is a good software that is used usually to fetch email to your server from a remote server but I think it should work for local. Check the link below: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/ Al-Juhani [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Hi Group, I am new user of Red Hat Linux. I am installing sendmail as an mail server. I have one question for this. We have mail id on our web site, [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, all mails sent on a.com are coming into inbox box [EMAIL PROTECTED] i.e. a mail sent on [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be in inbox of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now we want to download all mails from there into our red hat linux server and from there I want to distribute mail to user of Red Hat Linux server. i.e mail on [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user1, mail on [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user2. Is it possible? How? Pl. reply soon. Thanks and Regards Rupesh Shah -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail server in Red Hat Linux
what kind of mail box do u have ? looks like a IMAP box. If it is then based in the message to header the mails can be parsed and delivered to local mailboxes. The admin account you are mentioning is it having the access to the entire IMAP account ? then this should be possible. Local parsing will be taken care by procmail. Read the HOWtos of Fetchmail and Sendmail before u start off then it will be easy !! good luck sendhil - Original Message - From: Rupesh Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 3:05 PM Subject: Mail server in Red Hat Linux Hi Group, I am new user of Red Hat Linux. I am installing sendmail as an mail server. I have one question for this. We have mail id on our web site, [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, all mails sent on a.com are coming into inbox box [EMAIL PROTECTED] i.e. a mail sent on [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be in inbox of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now we want to download all mails from there into our red hat linux server and from there I want to distribute mail to user of Red Hat Linux server. i.e mail on [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user1, mail on [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user2. Is it possible? How? Pl. reply soon. Thanks and Regards Rupesh Shah __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail Server not accepting Mails!
Hi, Thanks for the reply. I managed to get it working. The I have done here is all my mails are downloaded by fetchmail and redirected to my account on the server and from the server I POP it. I can even send a mail like [EMAIL PROTECTED] where wiplash.com is bogus here. Its cool! I am also trying to configure Gotmail so that I can pop my hotmail account. thanks Daniel regards Krishna Krishna Shekhar Network Administrator Wiplash.com - Original Message - From: Daniel Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 3:43 PM Subject: Re: Mail Server not accepting Mails! u can try setting hostname in /etc/host and did you create the user on that server? is sendmail daemon active? do a ps -ef | grep sendmail* if no, then run sendmail -bd - Original Message - From: Krishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 5:06 PM Subject: Mail Server not accepting Mails! Hi, I am trying to setup a mailserver for personal use.The server downloads mails for me using fetchmail and I then pop it through the networked windows machine. But the problem is that the server is not accepting the mails which I send to it? The ipaddress of the server is 192.168.0.36 When I try to send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; this is what the maillog shows: n=5.1.2, stat=Host unknown (Name server: 192.168.0.36: host not found) Aug 27 13:48:05 linux sendmail[21117]: g7R6m4i21115: g7R6m5i21117: DSN: Host unk nown (Name server: 192.168.0.36: host not found) Aug 27 13:48:05 linux sendmail[21117]: g7R6m5i21117: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=30545, relay=192.168.0.36, ds n=5.1.2, stat=Host unknown (Name server: 192.168.0.36: host not found) Aug 27 13:48:05 linux sendmail[21117]: g7R6m5i21117: to=uucp-dom, delay=00:00:00 , mailer=local, pri=30545, dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown Aug 27 13:48:05 linux sendmail[21117]: g7R6m5i21117: g7R6m5j21117: return to sen der: User unknown Aug 27 13:48:05 linux sendmail[21117]: g7R6m5j21117: to=root, delay=00:00:00, xd elay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30645, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Aug 27 13:48:22 linux fetchmail[3885]: 1 message (1 seen) for krishna_shekhar@gm x.net at pop.gmx.net (1756 octets). In sendmail configuration I configured sendmail to listen on 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.0.36 O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=192.168.0.36, Name=MTA What more configuration should I do? regards Krishna Krishna Shekhar Network Administrator Wiplash Wireless -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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The original message was sent by daniel - This message was intercepted by the Lee Enterprises e-mail filter software. Lee Enterprises prohibits the use of its e-mail system for transmission of SPAM. It is also the policy of Lee Enterprises that all electronic communication shall exhibit the highest standards of business conduct. The attached e-mail message fails to comply with one or both of these policies. Please inform the sender of this message that it has been identified as an inappropriate use of the Lee Enterprises e-mail system and it will not be transmitted. In the future, messages that do not adhere to corporate policy will be intercepted and no notice will be provided to the intended recipient. This message shall also serve as a reminder that Lee Enterprises' electronic mail system is company property and is intended for business purposes. Employees use of the e-mail system and computer equipment is not private. | Well, you might want to install the imap rpm and then turn on the pop3 | server just to see if it works. This is pretty simple and you can easily | remove the package after testing. | | This should show you whether the problem is with the client config or | whether you have a problem with the pop3 compile. good idea i tried it it worked so now i know that the problem lies in the imap build but what is it? these are my options for the build: lnx Linux with traditional passwords and crypt() lnp Linux with PAM lrh Redhat Linux 7.2 lsu SuSE Linux s14 Linux using -lshadow to get the crypt() function s15 Linux with shadow passwords, no extra libraries slx Linux using -lcrypt to get the crypt() function since i'm using redhat 7.2, i've tried lrh and when that didn't work, i tried lnp... both give me the same problems. suggestions? _ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer we cook your food we haul your trash we place your calls we guard you while you sleep. do not fuck with us. - tyler Durden, fight club -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 18:10, Gerry Doris wrote: I continue to see these claims that sendmail is insecure. However, I've yet to see anyone actually back this up. Would you please give me the details of why sendmail is insecure. It's install SUID root (may not be true in future versions, Red Hat seems to have a solution to that particular problem) It's one, very large, very complex application. Without even beginning to get into other problems, the two above are enough that anyone with even a little security background will acknowledge that sendmail is not, and can not be made, secure. SUID applications should be as small as possible to accomplish their task: less code means fewer problems to exploit. Any other common MTA makes minimal use of root privileges and SUID binaries. Sendmail has a very long history of root exploits, both local and remote. It shouldn't be hard to find them. Just look at www.sendmail.org. -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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sendmail no longer installs setuid root when you compile it from source. instead the README suggests that you create a separate user and group and have that group have a setuid. redhat's version on the other hand IS set to setuid root (check /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail). _ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. - abbie hoffman - Original Message - Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 12:30 PM Subject: Re: mail server from source saga continues | On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 18:10, Gerry Doris wrote: | | I continue to see these claims that sendmail is insecure. However, I've | yet to see anyone actually back this up. Would you please give me the | details of why sendmail is insecure. | | It's install SUID root (may not be true in future versions, Red Hat | seems to have a solution to that particular problem) | It's one, very large, very complex application. | | Without even beginning to get into other problems, the two above are | enough that anyone with even a little security background will | acknowledge that sendmail is not, and can not be made, secure. SUID | applications should be as small as possible to accomplish their task: | less code means fewer problems to exploit. Any other common MTA makes | minimal use of root privileges and SUID binaries. | | Sendmail has a very long history of root exploits, both local and | remote. It shouldn't be hard to find them. Just look at | www.sendmail.org. | | | | | | -- | redhat-list mailing list | Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe | https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list | -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 12:02, daniel wrote: | Why didn't you just install Redhat's pop3 server rpm (actually it's the | imap rpm). It the UW pop3 package and would have saved you the trouble of | building it and perhaps not including something needed? 'cause i'm practicing for a linux build on a machine that won't be big enough for a redhat install. besides, i want to learn how to do things from source and not be dependant of pre-made packages. it breeds problems just like this one where i don't know what kind of authorisation my machine is using and should use for pop3. What constitutes not big enough? Before you spend too much time on this project, you should probably realize that the time you're going to put into getting sendmail and IMAP on this small machine is going to cost you more than the system requirements of Red Hat Linux. I'd also suggest that you re-examine your assertion that pre-made packages breed problems like this one. While true from a point of view, the whole picture is bigger than that. Building an OS (or even just the services on one) from source requires a great deal of understanding about how the system functions, and how *everything* is supposed to work together. A good system engineer knows more than how to make things work: he knows how to make things work *right*. I don't mean to discourage you from learning... I just think you're not starting in the right place. Get Red Hat's src.rpm for the imap package, and read the spec file. Read the patches. Understand what they've had to change to make imap work properly on Linux, and how they go about their build process. -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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I concur with what Gordon has to say. I think that you may want to look into that. I also feel that you would indeed find it easier to configure, aka minimal work with another mail software such as Exim, Postfix or Qmail. They are much easier to configure less work to maintain and great support for them. Exim especially. Cheers, Aly. Gordon Messmer wrote: On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 12:02, daniel wrote: | Why didn't you just install Redhat's pop3 server rpm (actually it's the | imap rpm). It the UW pop3 package and would have saved you the trouble of | building it and perhaps not including something needed? 'cause i'm practicing for a linux build on a machine that won't be big enough for a redhat install. besides, i want to learn how to do things from source and not be dependant of pre-made packages. it breeds problems just like this one where i don't know what kind of authorisation my machine is using and should use for pop3. What constitutes not big enough? Before you spend too much time on this project, you should probably realize that the time you're going to put into getting sendmail and IMAP on this small machine is going to cost you more than the system requirements of Red Hat Linux. I'd also suggest that you re-examine your assertion that pre-made packages breed problems like this one. While true from a point of view, the whole picture is bigger than that. Building an OS (or even just the services on one) from source requires a great deal of understanding about how the system functions, and how *everything* is supposed to work together. A good system engineer knows more than how to make things work: he knows how to make things work *right*. I don't mean to discourage you from learning... I just think you're not starting in the right place. Get Red Hat's src.rpm for the imap package, and read the spec file. Read the patches. Understand what they've had to change to make imap work properly on Linux, and how they go about their build process. -- Aly Dharshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator ORS Servers A good speech is like a good dress that's short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the subject -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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Greetings Brian, I hope that you are well. Sendmail has NOTHING to do with mbx, maildirs or whatever you want to use. Sendmail is an MTA. That's a Mail Transfer Agent. All it does is get mail from server to server. If it has happened to arrive at the right one, then it passes it off to an MDA. The default MDA in RH is procmail. You are correct it doesn't, I always treat procmail and say maildrop as part of that software. I always forget they are seperate. But in the case of Maildirs I think that the MTA also does the work of the MDA. Also, mbx is a simple text file. Corrupting it is only likely if you suffer a power outage. If you are suffering power outages on servers then they are either not critical servers or you are not planning properly. Fixing it can be done in your favorite text editor. (Note, there are other ways to corrupt it, but they are very unlikely and would also apply to maildirs.) No I think that such a file is corruptable much more easily than a directory containing many files, hence mbx is not suitable over NFS. Maybe a server crash could leave an mbx file inconsistant. Maildirs are harder to corrupt I would think. If you want to use maildir with UW-IMAP, then read their page on how to do it. You will simply need to recompile and then change your procmail rules to deliver to maildirs. UW-Imap is bulky and slow, Courier Imap is fast and efficient, I have worked with both when I could patch the UW-Imap system to do Maildir, this was a nasty piece of work. Courier is a Maildir Imap server only and is indeed as mentioned quite fast. Its the Imap server of choice nowadays or is getting popular. How do you define better? Less features? Less developers? No corporate sponsorship? Less common? Come on, this is just like the Emacs vs. Vi thing, aren't we passed that point? Sendmail has been hard to configure, Exim is easier to configure and work with right out of the box, so for example the cs department on campus runs sendmail, if they put Exim it would work with the same commandline switches and with adding your domain and mailhost to a configure file you are up and running. I am guess that its a matter of preference, Debian ships Exim by default. Its got a script to get Exim up and running quickly. RH ships Postfix as well, Sendmail is packaged because its the first mail server around I thinks. I could be very very wrong. I have nothing against any of your alternate suggestions (well, that's not completely true, I dislike Qmail for DJB and his licensing but not for the product), but they are not superior. They may fit someone's needs better, but there is not necessarily something to gain (well, except for a product that suits your needs :). I dislike Qmail as I could never get it to run for some odd reason, I found that there were too many files to work with, Exim was easy to configure and compile finally was sendmail compatible. Its fast and works for me and hence I recommend it to Daniel to make his life easier. Each to their own preference. But watch out Sendmail here comes Exim :) :) :) :) Best advice is do a lot of reading. No doubt. Lots of research. Cheers, Aly. -- Aly Dharshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator ORS Servers A good speech is like a good dress that's short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the subject -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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so i managed to install sendmail and configure it properly (i hope) and then i went searching for pop3/imap daemons and decided on the university of washington's ipop3 server built it, installed it and here's the good news: i _can_ connect to the linux box from a windows box via pop3 but the bad news: it doesn't work. i get the following error in /var/log/maillog: Jul 30 11:18:06 servername ipop3d[20708]: Login failed user=username auth=username host=host [ip] you read right, both the user= and the auth= are showing up the same even though i am passing two very different values for the username and password. am i right in assuming that this has something to do with how i compiled ipop3? according to the build README, i was supposed to type: make lnp for linux systems running PAM. isn't that how redhat7.3 is default installed? or am i on an entirely wrong track here? thanks for the help people. i'm still a newbie at all this and i feel like i'm up to my neck in error messages. Why didn't you just install Redhat's pop3 server rpm (actually it's the imap rpm). It the UW pop3 package and would have saved you the trouble of building it and perhaps not including something needed? Gerry -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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| Why didn't you just install Redhat's pop3 server rpm (actually it's the | imap rpm). It the UW pop3 package and would have saved you the trouble of | building it and perhaps not including something needed? 'cause i'm practicing for a linux build on a machine that won't be big enough for a redhat install. besides, i want to learn how to do things from source and not be dependant of pre-made packages. it breeds problems just like this one where i don't know what kind of authorisation my machine is using and should use for pop3. _ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer the more law and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. - lao-tsu -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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| Why didn't you just install Redhat's pop3 server rpm (actually it's the | imap rpm). It the UW pop3 package and would have saved you the trouble of | building it and perhaps not including something needed? 'cause i'm practicing for a linux build on a machine that won't be big enough for a redhat install. besides, i want to learn how to do things from source and not be dependant of pre-made packages. it breeds problems just like this one where i don't know what kind of authorisation my machine is using and should use for pop3. Well, you might want to install the imap rpm and then turn on the pop3 server just to see if it works. This is pretty simple and you can easily remove the package after testing. This should show you whether the problem is with the client config or whether you have a problem with the pop3 compile. Gerry -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 12:02, daniel wrote: 'cause i'm practicing for a linux build on a machine that won't be big enough for a redhat install. besides, i want to learn how to do things from source and not be dependant of pre-made packages. it breeds problems just like this one where i don't know what kind of authorisation my machine is using and should use for pop3. Since you're building your mail server from source why not look at qmail instead of sendmail? It has many advantages over sendmail, one of the major ones being security. There are some great step-by-step toasters out there for building qmail on a linux system. It can be used very easily with vpopmail for vitual domains and can be configured with Spamassassin for spam control. I have also found that I like dealing with Maildirs much better than mboxs. Check it out http://qmail.org -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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| Well, you might want to install the imap rpm and then turn on the pop3 | server just to see if it works. This is pretty simple and you can easily | remove the package after testing. | | This should show you whether the problem is with the client config or | whether you have a problem with the pop3 compile. good idea i tried it it worked so now i know that the problem lies in the imap build but what is it? these are my options for the build: lnx Linux with traditional passwords and crypt() lnp Linux with PAM lrh Redhat Linux 7.2 lsu SuSE Linux s14 Linux using -lshadow to get the crypt() function s15 Linux with shadow passwords, no extra libraries slx Linux using -lcrypt to get the crypt() function since i'm using redhat 7.2, i've tried lrh and when that didn't work, i tried lnp... both give me the same problems. suggestions? _ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer we cook your food we haul your trash we place your calls we guard you while you sleep. do not fuck with us. - tyler Durden, fight club -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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Well if we are building from scratch I would put in my vote for Exim, having used it for a couple of large projects, I have found that its widely maintained and isn't sorry to say stagnant like Qmail is, there hasn't been a release of Qmail past 1.03 I would say and that Exim has matured to 4.x with a wide user base. Supports Maildirs, LDAP and other authentication methods natively no need to patch things and is much easier to do things with check it out (http://www.exim.org) Cheers, Aly. Andy Schuler wrote: On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 12:02, daniel wrote: 'cause i'm practicing for a linux build on a machine that won't be big enough for a redhat install. besides, i want to learn how to do things from source and not be dependant of pre-made packages. it breeds problems just like this one where i don't know what kind of authorisation my machine is using and should use for pop3. Since you're building your mail server from source why not look at qmail instead of sendmail? It has many advantages over sendmail, one of the major ones being security. There are some great step-by-step toasters out there for building qmail on a linux system. It can be used very easily with vpopmail for vitual domains and can be configured with Spamassassin for spam control. I have also found that I like dealing with Maildirs much better than mboxs. Check it out http://qmail.org -- Aly Dharshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator ORS Servers A good speech is like a good dress that's short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the subject -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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i've already compiled, installed and configured sendmail and that's what i want to use. my problem is with imap/pop3. _ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots. - thomas jefferson - Original Message - Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 3:08 PM Subject: Re: mail server from source saga continues | Well if we are building from scratch I would put in my vote for Exim, having | used it for a couple of large projects, I have found that its widely maintained | and isn't sorry to say stagnant like Qmail is, there hasn't been a release of | Qmail past 1.03 I would say and that Exim has matured to 4.x with a wide user base. | | Supports Maildirs, LDAP and other authentication methods natively no need to | patch things and is much easier to do things with check it out (http://www.exim.org) | | Cheers, | | Aly. | | Andy Schuler wrote: | On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 12:02, daniel wrote: | | | 'cause i'm practicing for a linux build on a machine that won't be big | enough for a redhat install. besides, i want to learn how to do things from | source and not be dependant of pre-made packages. it breeds problems just | like this one where i don't know what kind of authorisation my machine is | using and should use for pop3. | | | | Since you're building your mail server from source why not look at qmail | instead of sendmail? It has many advantages over sendmail, one of the | major ones being security. There are some great step-by-step toasters | out there for building qmail on a linux system. It can be used very | easily with vpopmail for vitual domains and can be configured with | Spamassassin for spam control. I have also found that I like dealing | with Maildirs much better than mboxs. Check it out | | http://qmail.org | | | | | | | | -- | Aly Dharshi | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | System Administrator ORS Servers | | A good speech is like a good dress | that's short enough to be interesting | and long enough to cover the subject | | | | -- | redhat-list mailing list | Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe | https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list | -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 July 2002 05:24 pm, daniel wrote: these are my options for the build: lnx Linux with traditional passwords and crypt() lnp Linux with PAM lrh Redhat Linux 7.2 lsu SuSE Linux s14 Linux using -lshadow to get the crypt() function s15 Linux with shadow passwords, no extra libraries slx Linux using -lcrypt to get the crypt() function since i'm using redhat 7.2, i've tried lrh and when that didn't work, i tried lnp... both give me the same problems. suggestions? Here are the options Red Hat uses to build the imap rpm. However, they also apply several patches to the source. You might also install the Red Hat provided imap source package, and look at how they build it. %build # Set EXTRACFLAGS here instead of in imap-2000-redhat.patch (#20760) EXTRACFLAGS=$EXTRACFLAGS -DDISABLE_POP_PROXY=1 - -DIGNORE_LOCK_EACCES_ERRORS=1 EXTRACFLAGS=$EXTRACFLAGS -I/usr/include/openssl EXTRACFLAGS=$EXTRACFLAGS -I/usr/kerberos/include EXTRALDFLAGS=$EXTRALDFLAGS -L/usr/kerberos/lib %ifnarch sparc make RPM_OPT_FLAGS=$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -fPIC lnp \ %else make RPM_OPT_FLAGS= lnp \ %endif EXTRACFLAGS=$EXTRACFLAGS \ EXTRALDFLAGS=$EXTRALDFLAGS \ EXTRAAUTHENTICATORS=gss \ SSLTYPE=unix \ - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.2 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj1HI0oACgkQn/07WoAb/Sv8jgCdE+hdNp9h/tJcu3YVJyGBEgvg K/MAn1kD4CxOaurGMpJ+Yl/kep6ukfh2 =lHrw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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More power to you. Sendmail is a good product, but Postfix is much easier to set up, and to be the admin of. Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:36:29 -0700 From: daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mail server from source saga continues To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i've already compiled, installed and configured sendmail and that's what i want to use. my problem is with imap/pop3. _ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots. - thomas jefferson -- ___ Download the free Opera browser at http://www.opera.com/ Free OperaMail at http://www.operamail.com/ Powered by Outblaze -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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On 30 Jul 2002, Andy Schuler wrote: Since you're building your mail server from source why not look at qmail instead of sendmail? It has many advantages over sendmail, one of the major ones being security. There are some great step-by-step toasters out there for building qmail on a linux system. It can be used very easily with vpopmail for vitual domains and can be configured with Spamassassin for spam control. I have also found that I like dealing with Maildirs much better than mboxs. Check it out http://qmail.org I continue to see these claims that sendmail is insecure. However, I've yet to see anyone actually back this up. Would you please give me the details of why sendmail is insecure. From what I've seen of the releases in the last couple of years the focus has been on tightening security not so much as fixing issues. About the closest I've had anyone come is their concern that sendmail has so many options that it could be misconfigured leading to an insecurity. However, that's likely true of most of the complex packages ie apache and not the fault of sendmail. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: mail server from source saga continues....
As I mentioned then you want to look at Uni of Washington's Imap server. You can look thru' and the best way to compile it would be to compile it as RedHat Linux 7.2 I don't think that 7.3 is that invariably different so as to choke the compilation. As I also mentioned that Sendmail is a system that makes use of the mbx format which is pretty unreliable, one big file that has all you mail, if that gets corrupted kiss most of you mail good-bye. So working with the fact that Sendmail doesn't support Maildirs and you want to use mbx formats and Sendmail then by all means work with UW-imapd/pop3d its reliable. That is your solution. Qpopper is indeed a good pop3 server. If you decided that you want to use a more reliable mailbox format such as Maildirs then firstly do some research on Maildirs, choose a better product than sendmail, such as Exim, Qmail or Postfix and then find a imap/pop server that supports maildirs such as Courier-Imap. Cheers, Aly. -- Aly Dharshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator ORS Servers A good speech is like a good dress that's short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the subject -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail server only...
-Original Message- From: Fred Edmister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 11:51 AM Subject: Mail server only... Just curious, I'm about to build a system that is going to be used for a mail server only. Is there any part of the setup that I can change that will make it so I don't have to go back into the config and take things back out? Also, what would be better to use, I have RH 5.2 and 6.2, and just curious which one might be better to use... (never did get majordomo to work on 6.2 LOL) Thanks in advance to everyone, and hope you all had a VERY Merry Christmas! You would probably want 6.2. It's alot safer in terms of security, and has better hardware support. As to installing only what you will need, thats what the custom install option is for. :) Just select the portions you wish to install, and let it go. Hope this helps. Jeff Hogg ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail server only...
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Fred Edmister wrote: Just curious, I'm about to build a system that is going to be used for a mail server only. Is there any part of the setup that I can change that will make it so I don't have to go back into the config and take things back out? Also, what would be better to use, I have RH 5.2 and 6.2, and just curious which one might be better to use... (never did get majordomo to work on 6.2 LOL) Thanks in advance to everyone, and hope you all had a VERY Merry Christmas! Probably 6.2 and use Mailman for list management. :-) John ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mail server only...
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 12:38:43 Fred Edmister wrote: Just curious, I'm about to build a system that is going to be used for a mail server only. Is there any part of the setup that I can change that will make it so I don't have to go back into the config and take things back out? Also, what would be better to use, I have RH 5.2 and 6.2, and just curious which one might be better to use... (never did get majordomo to work on 6.2 LOL) Search the Sendmail and Majordomo FAQs for 'smrsh' to get Majordomo working on 6.2. Mailman looks like it might be better, but I'm already familiar with Majordomo. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/ PGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D Chat: AOL/Yahoo: TonyG05ICQ: 91183266 Linux. The choice of a GNU Generation. http://www.linux.org/ ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: mail server upgrade( sendmail 8.8.7 to 8.9.3 )...pls help....
thanks sir you really give me an idea... i hope i could make it work -- From: Eddie Strohmier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mail server upgrade( sendmail 8.8.7 to 8.9.3 )...pls help Date: Thursday, February 24, 2000 9:30 PM Woops had a typo: A loop back to local host, not a look back. Check your log files as I have seen this after upgrading to 8.9.3 and sendmail.cw was the answer. The error also may be worded: mail loops back to me, configuration error or something of that sort. Eddie Strohmier Bonwell Globalnet www.bonwell.com - Original Message - From: Eddie Strohmier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 8:03 AM Subject: Re: mail server upgrade( sendmail 8.8.7 to 8.9.3 )...pls help I assume your using sendmail 8.9.3 and was using 8.8.7 before? I would venture to guess that your problem is that you have not included the names of your machine in /etc/sendmail.cw. Add your domain name and any virtual domains you may be running. This seems to be the most like cause for sendmail to cause a look back to local host. Check your /var/log/maillog for error messages that would give you a clue as to what is wrong. Or post it here as I don't have much to work with without log entries. Eddie Strohmier Bonwell Globalnet www.bonwell.com - Original Message - From: cnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 4:34 AM Subject: mail server upgrade( sendmail 8.8.7 to 8.9.3 )...pls help i upgraded my mail server to version 6.1 from 5.2 (linux) i tried the same sendmail config ( sendmail.cf ) from my old server to the new one... we could send messages and our new mail server can receive and store incoming messages. but taking messages from the server gets an error message. tired of waiting(using eudora for win :) ) did i miss something... what are new ways to configure sendmail... thanks...i hope somebody could help cnet -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: mail server upgrade( sendmail 8.8.7 to 8.9.3 )...pls help....
I assume your using sendmail 8.9.3 and was using 8.8.7 before? I would venture to guess that your problem is that you have not included the names of your machine in /etc/sendmail.cw. Add your domain name and any virtual domains you may be running. This seems to be the most like cause for sendmail to cause a look back to local host. Check your /var/log/maillog for error messages that would give you a clue as to what is wrong. Or post it here as I don't have much to work with without log entries. Eddie Strohmier Bonwell Globalnet www.bonwell.com - Original Message - From: cnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 4:34 AM Subject: mail server upgrade( sendmail 8.8.7 to 8.9.3 )...pls help i upgraded my mail server to version 6.1 from 5.2 (linux) i tried the same sendmail config ( sendmail.cf ) from my old server to the new one... we could send messages and our new mail server can receive and store incoming messages. but taking messages from the server gets an error message. tired of waiting(using eudora for win :) ) did i miss something... what are new ways to configure sendmail... thanks...i hope somebody could help cnet -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: mail server upgrade( sendmail 8.8.7 to 8.9.3 )...pls help....
i upgraded my mail server to version 6.1 from 5.2 (linux) i tried the same sendmail config ( sendmail.cf ) from my old server to the new one... we could send messages and our new mail server can receive and store incoming messages. but taking messages from the server gets an error message. tired of waiting(using eudora for win :) ) did i miss something... what are new ways to configure sendmail... The POP3 deamon is the problem, not sendmail. You can't use sendmail to retreive mail. Without entries from the logfiles these kind of questions are useless.. The most likely cause is that the POP3 daemon looks in a different dir then procmail (sendmail's local delivery agent) puts them. It is also very wise to generate a new sendmail config, because some things have changed.. thanks...i hope somebody could help cnet Igmar -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: mail server upgrade( sendmail 8.8.7 to 8.9.3 )...pls help....
Woops had a typo: A loop back to local host, not a look back. Check your log files as I have seen this after upgrading to 8.9.3 and sendmail.cw was the answer. The error also may be worded: mail loops back to me, configuration error or something of that sort. Eddie Strohmier Bonwell Globalnet www.bonwell.com - Original Message - From: Eddie Strohmier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 8:03 AM Subject: Re: mail server upgrade( sendmail 8.8.7 to 8.9.3 )...pls help I assume your using sendmail 8.9.3 and was using 8.8.7 before? I would venture to guess that your problem is that you have not included the names of your machine in /etc/sendmail.cw. Add your domain name and any virtual domains you may be running. This seems to be the most like cause for sendmail to cause a look back to local host. Check your /var/log/maillog for error messages that would give you a clue as to what is wrong. Or post it here as I don't have much to work with without log entries. Eddie Strohmier Bonwell Globalnet www.bonwell.com - Original Message - From: cnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 4:34 AM Subject: mail server upgrade( sendmail 8.8.7 to 8.9.3 )...pls help i upgraded my mail server to version 6.1 from 5.2 (linux) i tried the same sendmail config ( sendmail.cf ) from my old server to the new one... we could send messages and our new mail server can receive and store incoming messages. but taking messages from the server gets an error message. tired of waiting(using eudora for win :) ) did i miss something... what are new ways to configure sendmail... thanks...i hope somebody could help cnet -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
RE: Mail Server Newbie (and a Portsentry question)
Portsentry isn't just for portscanning. The old-time method of hacking into a machine involved/involves port surfing. Rather than simply running a scanner, someone may simply try to telnet into a series of specific ports. One reason one may wish to use your port 25 could be for email spoofing - get in and send email from your system in an attempt to hide their actual name/location to the recipient. Of course, they could also seek to get on and try to run an exploit on your server or simply try to gather info about your system for future hacking reference. -Original Message- From: George Lenzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: recipient.list.not.shown Subject: Mail Server Newbie (and a Portsentry question) I just finished setting up a mail server for the first time. I am using POP3 and have disabled IMAP since I won't be using that. I have a domain [...] My other question regards portsentry. I noticed that any machines that attempt to use my SMTP server that aren't in my sendmail.cw file get dumped into /etc/hosts.deny. Is this normal behavior for Portsentry? I didn't realize that trying to use port 25 from an unauthorized host would come off as a port scan. This is just a curiosity to me. [...] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: Mail Server Newbie (and a Portsentry question)
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 03:38:40PM -0500, George Lenzer wrote: I just finished setting up a mail server for the first time. I am using POP3 and have disabled IMAP since I won't be using that. I have a domain name that is in the DNS system on the Internet. I have entered one of my hosts into the sendmail.cw file to allow it to relay for that host. So far, I can send and recieve mail on that host using my mail server. However, I would like to know if there is a way to allow specific users to relay with my machine? I have a few friends I would like to set accounts up for on my machine. they don't have static IPs and I really don't want to allow the aol.com or msn.com domains to relay through my machine. Is there a way I can allow specific users to use my mail server only? But if they have an account on your machine, then they will not use aol and friends, they will use your server. And then they are supposed to use your server's name in their sender's address and not aol. What kind of relay problem do you forsee? My other question regards portsentry. I noticed that any machines that attempt to use my SMTP server that aren't in my sendmail.cw file get dumped into /etc/hosts.deny. Is this normal behavior for Portsentry? I didn't realize that trying to use port 25 from an unauthorized host would come off as a port scan. This is just a curiosity to me. Portsentry does not block 25 by default. Perhaps you accidentally entered 25 as a TCP_PORTS in portsentry.conf? Examine the output of grep "^TCP_PORTS=" portsentry.conf What is the log entry showing that portsentry blocked a host connecting to port 25? Mate -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: Mail Server Newbie (and a Portsentry question)
But if they have an account on your machine, then they will not use aol and friends, they will use your server. And then they are supposed to use your server's name in their sender's address and not aol. What kind of relay problem do you forsee? I could see this not being a problem if they were given shell access, but what is being referred to, even if they have a shell account, without allowing they ISP's they use to relay mail out through his MTA, the relay idea would not be possilbe. To be a bit more specific, don't setup the relay, have your friends send out e-mail through their ISP's SMTP server. They can set the reply address in there favorite mail program to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and use POP3 to pick mail up from your server. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
