Mail server HOWTO

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2003-12-16 10:29, Benjamin J. Weiss whipped out a trusty #2 
pencil and scribbled:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
>To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 9:58 AM
>Subject: Mail server HOWTO (was: Re: Chicken Little eats crow)
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>>At 11:55 12/15/2003, you wrote:
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>>>As I get time in the future, I'll probably write a quicky howto on
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>setting
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>>>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.)
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>>Ben,
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>>I have figured out Docbook already (as far as I need to, anyway) and I
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>have
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>>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
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>>do" items for later include how to set up TLS and secure transport as well
>>as simple integration with MailScanner, SpamAssassin, and an antivirus
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>engine.
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>>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:
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>>http://www.simpaticus.com/linux/sendmail-smtp-auth-howto.html
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>Rodolfo,
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>I've gotten a DocBook DTD and have been figuring it out, with some success
>so far.  I've also already started the install, along with the document (I'm
>writing the HOWTO as I install the server).
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>Co-authoring sounds good to me, I'll contact you directly tonight, after
>I've had a chance to look at your doc.  I've still got my (very poor) notes
>on my RH 9 setup with postfix (I refuse to use sendmail, with their poor
>security track record) smtp auth, TLS and imaps.  Also the virus and spam
>checking. :)
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>My goal is to have a doc that will allow a person to go (hopefully in just a
>few hours) from a blank machine into a working, safe, secure email server.
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>Later,
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>Ben
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FWIW, I installed qmail (+ a bunch of helpers, vpopmail, vqmailadmin, 
etc.) following the instructions at www.qmailrocks.org while under RH9.  
It has worked well and continues to after upgrading to FC1.

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Fritz Whittington
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