Security issue: SMTP and qmail

2001-02-01 Thread Marcus Korte
Hi, I have set up an internal mailserver based on qmail and RH6.2 behind a firewall. There are some security aspects in which I am not sure about. If SMTP is opened in the firewall, the machine could easily be hacked I assume. Are there any recommendations how to secure smtp on qmail? Thx!

Re: Security issue: SMTP and qmail

2001-02-01 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:53:48PM +0100, Marcus Korte wrote: Hi, I have set up an internal mailserver based on qmail and RH6.2 behind a firewall. There are some security aspects in which I am not sure about. If SMTP is opened in the firewall, the machine could easily be hacked I assume.

Re: Security issue: SMTP and qmail

2001-02-01 Thread Graphic Rezidew
If security is a concern then you might not want to be running RedHat On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:53:48PM +0100, Marcus Korte wrote: Hi, I have set up an internal mailserver based on qmail and RH6.2 behind a firewall. There are some security aspects in which I am not sure about. If SMTP

Re: Security issue: SMTP and qmail

2001-02-01 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:04:03AM -0600, Graphic Rezidew wrote: If security is a concern then you might not want to be running RedHat At least, not an unmodified RedHat. My typical post-install procedure is to either remove or disable anything that doesn't need to be running (in terms of

Re: Security issue: SMTP and qmail

2001-02-01 Thread Robin S. Socha
* Bruce Guenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:04:03AM -0600, Graphic Rezidew wrote: If security is a concern then you might not want to be running RedHat At least, not an unmodified RedHat. My typical post-install procedure is to either remove or disable anything

Re: Security issue: SMTP and qmail

2001-02-01 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 09:03:30PM +0100, Robin S. Socha wrote: OK, so after the next GNOMEified update, you start from scratch. Who puts GNOME on a server? Who puts server software on a GNOME desktop? To my mind they're seperate. Besides, I generally ignore updates to critical systems until