Mail server HOWTO (was: Re: Chicken Little eats crow)

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 11:55 12/15/2003, you wrote:
>I have been home sick with the flu this past week, so when I was feeling
>better and had some time before going back to work, I took a bunch of
>components left over from various upgrades and built a 566MHz Celeron system
>with 256MB of RAM and a 30Gig HD.  I installed FC1, and it was very smooth.
>I managed to switch to postfix, install realvnc4 with yum, and to a yum
>update before I ran out of juice.  Very nice!
>
>As I get time in the future, I'll probably write a quicky howto on setting
>up this box as I have my RH9 box, as a secure mail server with smtpauth,
>tls, etc.  That is, if I can ever figure out DocBook!  (I'm a guy who
>*prefers* writing HTML by hand, but this docbook stuff is very confusing.
>Guess I just have to keep at it.)

Ben,

I have figured out Docbook already (as far as I need to, anyway) and I have 
written a brief HOWTO on setting up Red Hat's (and Fedora's) sendmail to 
use unencrypted SMTP AUTH. From here it is but a short hop to adding users 
and POP/IMAP access, but I have not done so yet for lack of time. Other "to 
do" items for later include how to set up TLS and secure transport as well 
as simple integration with MailScanner, SpamAssassin, and an antivirus engine.

I got 440 unique visitors in November, and December looks to be slightly 
over 500. I'd be happy to have your help on this, such that we could 
improve the document a lot. You can either contribute, or we can coauthor 
if you like. Check out the current version at:

http://www.simpaticus.com/linux/sendmail-smtp-auth-howto.html


-- 
Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at simpaticus.com
http://www.simpaticus.com