From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LSZj5-0000WS-Mi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:26:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05224E03DA; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:26:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B78D3E03DA for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:26:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 525996421F for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:26:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.878 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.878 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.721, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rPZ8gyJ2EJ4y for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:26:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB513643BF for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:26:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LSZiq-0006Rz-0S for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:26:32 +0000 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:26:32 +0000 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:26:32 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo mail server Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:26:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1233088701.24106.612.camel@brown.esteem.com> <497FBC7D.2080801@badapple.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090117 SeaMonkey/1.1.14) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 9a6eec44-0691-4d29-a8a5-86b682540c66 X-Archives-Hash: fd8800b1a6543a41b62ecce35eb99bb0 kashani badapple.net> writes: > I've been running a Gentoo mail server for either work or personal use > and usually both since 2001. No real problems, but you do have to watch > some updates especially sasl and courier. OK. > My current system is > Postfix-2.5 At minimum I'd use Postfix-2.2 which has the better syntax > for your virtual statements. > Postgrey for greylisting, had some issues with sqlgrey. > PostfixAdmin, because using phpmyadmin to manage your accounts and > domains is futile. I'm still on 2.1 and need to check out the newer > version. Requires PHP and a webserver. > courier-imap and cyrus-sasl. Thinking about moving to Dovecot since you > can use dovecot-sasl with Postfix under Gentoo. > Mysql5 > It's fully virtual, supports smtp and imap over ssl, sasl, skipped TLS, > and easy to manage. I do not recommend the Gentoo Virtual How-to, it's > ancient and silly. Is this the page your refer to? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml > I used to have a how-to on gentoo-wiki which I need to recreate. Maybe > this weekend. Very cool. > In regards to stability... don't update right away. When Postfix 2.6 > comes out, give it a month. Or play with it in a virtual server. Same > with Mysql 5.1. Or whatever. I've run three separate companies on Gentoo > and never had much of an issue though I always had a test/stage/qa > environment of some sort. Also keep an eye on the forums and this mail > list. That'll usually give you a heads up when an update isn't quite right. Well all of this is great news. I've pretty much decided to build a postgtres mail server, mostly like what you have outlined.. I'm likely to set up a second, duplicate machine for testing. Drop a line to the list, when you have your wiki page up and I'll follow it and make some notes on the process of settting up a postfix mail server on gentoo.Maybe you could fix up this wiki?(or build another?): http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Postfix Do you use a regular gentoo kernel, hardened setup, or what packages to keep the mail server tightly secure? excellent notes! James