On Mon, 2026-01-05 at 22:49 +1100, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: > I managed my own Qmail MTA for decades but eventually succumbed to using > a cPanel hosted service - but there are annoyances with that setup so I > wondered about using my own server again but with cPanel. The recommended > servers are RPM-based but not officially supported - anyone installed on > Fedora?
You should probably say whether this is just internal mail systems or publicly facing. You can be fairly slack with internal mail security, but not if its internet serving. For what it's worth, I never tried using a configurator (like CPanel), learning its foibles was already a pain when it came to my site's hosting services. It's mainly designed to let users tweak some things for themselves without pestering an admin, and prevent them from doing things that affects other users on the system. That sort of thing may be a problem in itself with any configurator (it's limitations, and having to learn its foibles may be more hard work than learning how to directly configure the services, yourself). I use dovecot for an internal IMAP server, and it wasn't too hard to deal with its configuration. And for many years I had sendmail as an internal system, and it was also my gateway to post out to the internet, but had to stop that once most external mail needed authentication before it could be sent. It was easier to set up the mail clients to do that themselves, with the outside service, rather than figure out how to get sendmail to do that correctly for each address (if it even could). Though I do miss the convenience of being able to simply configure any mail client in the LAN to just use the local mail server as its sending and receiving servers. Every now and then some external mail service would change their requirements as far as you authenticating with it goes, and they'd only publish information on configuring them major email programs to suit. Configuring *other* things to work with them requires extrapolating the information. But you can hit roadblocks if they play whitelisting games, and only allow connections from particular software. Several times I've had to fix up mail for an elderly lady because Telstra (biggest service provider in Australia) had changed something, and their tech support staff didn't know what to do with common mail software (such as on Microsoft's Outlook on Android phones). Their systems can tell apart everything the user uses to connect, and required different passwords for every client on every device (it fingerprints the connection attempts), and you had to use a new password generated by their system, you couldn't set your own, and they buried the feature in a hidden menu on their webmail service. But their tech support didn't even know that. They'd manage to get her phone working, then her laptop couldn't. If they bothered to then try to get the laptop working, they broke phone access. That was in-store person-to-person help. Over the phone help was useless for you. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
