Email Server Solution

[Smith, Albert]

Albert Smith
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
HPCSA, RHCT
Genex Services
440 E. Swedesford Rd.
Wayne, PA 19087
albert.smith at genexservices.com
(610) 964-5154
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steve Buehler
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 9:05 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Email Server Solution
> 
> At 02:09 PM 8/2/2005, you wrote:
> > > Ok.  I give.  What in the heck is an spf (TXT) record?  Something 
> > > that just came out this year?  I have everything that AOL 
> requires 
> > > now.  If that is a new term for a PTR or reverse record, 
> then I already have it.
> >
> >It is probably an SPF record. http://spf.pobox.com/.
> >
> >It dictates from which IP a message for a specific domain is 
> supposed 
> >to come from.
> 
>          hmmmm.  Is this widely used?  I have never heard of 
> it before.  It is going to be a headache to implement for an 
> administrator that uses a control panel for his clients on 
> his server.  Ensim is widely used and it doesn't do it for 
> you.  Kind of takes away the reason to have a control panel 
> if only a tech can setup a site.  2 reasons we got the 
> control panel for the server was:
> 1.  So that even my non techy boss could setup a site.
> 2.  So that the client could have a control panel where he 
> can do some of his/her own administration.  Like setting up 
> his own email accounts.
>          It really isn't feasible to implement this on these 
> types of servers.  We might as well close down shop since our 
> customers want control panels.  Or wait for Ensim to 
> implement it.  I don't know if the other control panels out 
> there use it, like CPanel.  But if they don't then it isn't 
> something that a lot of hosting companies are going to do.
>          From what I read, it also requires the DNS server to 
> be separate.  Ensim doesn't have that built in and doesn't 
> support it either.  In our case, I have written some scripts 
> that automatically moves all of the DNS records to a separate 
> server a couple of times a day and it works just fine this 
> way.  But for a lot of providers who can't write a script, 
> this won't be feasible for them either.  I have offered my 
> script for doing it at no charge, but nobody administering 
> Ensim seems to want to do it.  They seem happy to just have 
> the default DNS servers on the same system as their Control Panel. 
> 
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Have you tried looking at the Ensim solution directory? It appears that
there is atleast one there that might have what you are looking for and
be able to control it through ensim:

http://directory.ensim.com/solution.asp?mid=1&sid=9

Albert Smith
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
HPCSA, RHCT
Genex Services
440 E. Swedesford Rd.
Wayne, PA 19087
albert.smith at genexservices.com
(610) 964-5154