Re: Mail server on Redhat Linux

2003-09-11 Thread Martin Marques
El Jue 11 Sep 2003 09:50, Peram's List escribió: > Hi, > Im looking to setup a mail server. I'd appreciate if you can let me know > what are all the software that I need to know to set up an IMAP/POP > server. I have the option of setting up Exchange but I dont want to do > that, I'm looking for a

RE: Mail Server - Sendmail + IPOP3 --Solved!

2003-04-01 Thread Gavin Mellors
etc... Great Stuff. Gavin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mail Server - Sendmail + IPOP3 On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 16:29, Edward Dekkers wrote: > &g

Re: Mail Server - Sendmail + IPOP3

2003-04-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 16:29, Edward Dekkers wrote: > >From memory you can just type IMAP instead of POP3 there? Or am I > misunderstanding your question? > --- > Edward Dekkers (Director) Depends on the version of Outlook Express - most versions allow you to choose an IMAP server along with heaps

RE: Mail Server - Sendmail + IPOP3

2003-03-31 Thread Gavin Mellors
alf Of Edward Dekkers Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 8:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mail Server - Sendmail + IPOP3 > With regards IMAP, I did consider it, but how do I set up my outlook > express clients to receive there mail using IMAP ? > Under my clients O/Express-&

Re: Mail Server - Sendmail + IPOP3

2003-03-31 Thread Edward Dekkers
> With regards IMAP, I did consider it, but how do I set up my outlook > express clients to receive there mail using IMAP ? > Under my clients O/Express->Account settings->Connection->server > types->incoming server: only "POP3" (PORT 110) option is availible > Does IMAP also use port 110 ?? >From

RE: Mail Server - Sendmail + IPOP3

2003-03-31 Thread Gavin Mellors
n -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ben Russo Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 2:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mail Server - Sendmail + IPOP3 Gavin Mellors wrote: >Hi All > >I am managing a mail server (midterm newbie)

Re: Mail Server - Sendmail + IPOP3

2003-03-31 Thread Ben Russo
Gavin Mellors wrote: Hi All I am managing a mail server (midterm newbie). Server is an Intel Brownsville m/board, 256K Ram. Clients all using O/Express to get mail of POP server. Previous version of Redhat 5.2 and 7.0; had a special user group "popuser". When running userconf I could create my us

Re: Mail Server

2003-02-28 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
I like Postfix. Postfix is: super-easy to configure very secure (Wietse Venema is one of the security gurus) supported by IBM very, very fast compatible with Sendmail alias files and command-line Jon On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Christian Campbell wrote: > I have intermediate experience with Linux

Re: Mail Server

2003-02-28 Thread gabriel
sendmail is great. it's what handles most of the world's mail and there's a reason for it. configurability and security used to be issues with it, but it's been solid for a long time now. On February 28, 2003 01:55 pm, Christian Campbell wrote: > I have intermediate experience with Linux. Eve

Re: Mail Server

2003-02-28 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:55:20PM -0500, Christian Campbell wrote: > I have intermediate experience with Linux. Even less with mail servers. > I'm running a RedHat 8 server that needs to accept mail from the world as > our primary mailserver. I'm debating as to whether I should use postfix or >

Re: Mail Server

2003-02-28 Thread Deleo Paulo Ribeiro Junior
> Christian Campbell wrote: > | I have intermediate experience with Linux. Even less with mail servers. > | I'm running a RedHat 8 server that needs to accept mail from the world as > | our primary mailserver. I'm debating as to whether I should use > postfix or > | sendmail (or something else).

Re: Mail Server

2003-02-28 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 12:55, Christian Campbell wrote: > I'm running a RedHat 8 server that needs to accept mail from the world as > our primary mailserver. I'm debating as to whether I should use postfix or > sendmail (or something else). Anyone have any pros/cons to either of these? Either/or

Re: Mail Server

2003-02-28 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:55:20PM -0500, Christian Campbell wrote: > I have intermediate experience with Linux. Even less with mail servers. > I'm running a RedHat 8 server that needs to accept mail from the world as > our primary mailserver. I'm debating as to whether I should use postfix or >

Re: Mail Server

2003-02-28 Thread Joe Polk
You'll get lots of advise. I like sendmail. It's easy to configure too. You can use Webmin also to make it even easier. You can cut down on spam by using rbl's and/or add SpamAssassin. <> On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 13:55, Christian Campbell wrote: > I have intermediate experience with Linux. Even les

Re: Mail Server

2003-02-28 Thread nate
Christian Campbell said: > I have intermediate experience with Linux. Even less with mail servers. > I'm running a RedHat 8 server that needs to accept mail from the world as > our primary mailserver. I'm debating as to whether I should use postfix > or sendmail (or something else). Anyone have

Re: Mail Server

2003-02-28 Thread Francisco Neira
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Campbell wrote: | I have intermediate experience with Linux. Even less with mail servers. | I'm running a RedHat 8 server that needs to accept mail from the world as | our primary mailserver. I'm debating as to whether I should use postfix o

Re: Mail server(SIMS) virus scanning

2003-02-03 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 18:58, tugsuu wrote: > Hi all, > > I need a mail server virus scanning software. We use a SIMS(Sun > Internet Mail Server) on Solaris 7 on Intel platform. I have tryed > several virus scanning software for Solaris 7. But all of them are for > Solaris on sparc paltform.

Re: mail server virus scanning

2003-01-13 Thread irwin
On Monday 13 January 2003 07:00 am, you wrote: > > In short, yes you should install and use them all. They compliment each > other. > > Gerry Thank you. Since installing MailScanner less than 24 hours ago, it has already been working hard. I will install Razor and Spamassassin. Irwin --

Re: mail server virus scanning

2003-01-13 Thread Gerry Doris
> RH7.2, kernel-2.4.18-19.7, sendmail-8.11.6-3 > > I installed MailScanner and F-Prot from the rpm's, and it seemed to go > without any problem. Here is what I don't understand. > > Razor, spamsassassin, and MailScanner all seem to check for spam. Are > they different and should all be used? If

Re: mail server virus scanning

2003-01-12 Thread irwin
On Sunday 12 January 2003 12:33 pm, you wrote: ~ > I suggest that you make sure you have your mail server working properly. > Next install razor and then spamsassassin. Those should go in very easily. > This will take care of flagging spam. Next you should check out > MailScanner. > > Mai

RE: mail server virus scanning

2003-01-12 Thread Michael Pelley
Mailscanner - www.mailscanner.info You need your own Antivirus (e.g., Sophos, McAfee, F-Prot, etc). It also does SPAM. Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Michael George Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 3:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj

Re: mail server virus scanning

2003-01-12 Thread Aly Dharshi
I have found that using Exiscan with Exim as well as the Sophie/Sophos Antivirus combination on the relays has been a wonderful tool to stop this virus menance. As well as using Spamassassin as a tool is wonderful but I don't know how well Razor works anymore it used to be a big thing but its now s

Re: mail server virus scanning

2003-01-12 Thread Gerry Doris
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Michael George wrote: > I have a friend who has asked me to help them replace the Windoze2000 server > in their office with a Linux system. While they aren't using 2000 as a mail > server, they will be with Linux. They asked me about virus scanning incoming > email on the se

Re: Mail Server for home network

2002-11-14 Thread Jake Colman
EW> - fetchmail on the Linux system gets the mail from the ISP. I EW> schedule EW> this via cron. EW> - MTA (sendmail in my case) EW> - Fetchmail can automatically kick things over to sendmail EW> - Sendmail automatically runs procmail EW> - Procmail does my filter

Re: Mail Server for home network [THANKS]

2002-11-06 Thread Edward Dekkers
> I'm not set on how to achieve dial on demand functionality. Might pick up on advice from Edward Dekkers to use a combination of wvdial and pppd, although diald looks good in principle. Like I said, don't get me wrong - I LOVE diald. Just haven't been able to get it working on recent versions of

RE: Mail Server for home network [THANKS]

2002-11-06 Thread Roland Hill
From: Gary [mailto:gary-list-redhat@;mygirlfriday.info] Sent: Wednesday, 6 November 2002 6:24 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mail Server for home network [THANKS] On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:33:47PM +1300 or thereabouts, Roland Hill wrote: > Thanks to those who replied. You knowledgeab

Re: Mail Server for home network [THANKS]

2002-11-05 Thread Gary
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:33:47PM +1300 or thereabouts, Roland Hill wrote: > Thanks to those who replied. You knowledgeable types really do make a difference to >those of us who are trying to get up to speed. > > Now for the implementation phase. Well, what did you finally select ?

RE: Mail Server for home network [THANKS]

2002-11-05 Thread Roland Hill
Thanks to those who replied. You knowledgeable types really do make a difference to those of us who are trying to get up to speed. Now for the implementation phase. Regards, Roland Hill # This e-mail me

Re: Mail Server for home network

2002-11-05 Thread Hella
Do you have a static IP with your dial-up connection? You need a static so that you can point the MX record for your domain to your Linux box. (unless you are queing the mail somewhere else and sucking it downstream) Once past this hurdle, it is pretty straight forward: Configure your MTA to a

Re: Mail Server for home network

2002-11-04 Thread Edward Dekkers
> -Diald to have dial on demand functionality with the modem OK, every man and his dog has tackled your main problems, I'll tackle this one. I used diald way back on 5.2 and loved it. Upgraded to 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 and it broke at every step and I had to change heaps of configuration. I haven't manage

Re: Mail Server for home network

2002-11-04 Thread Gary
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:45:06AM +1300 or thereabouts, Roland Hill wrote: > > Being a new user, I would appreciate if you could kick me in the right direction on >the following issue. > I have a dial up, single account with my ISP. Simplistically, I would like to >receive email, filter the c

Re: Mail Server for home network

2002-11-04 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:45:06AM +1300, Roland Hill wrote: > My simple peer to peer network consists of 1 x RH7.3 box and 2 x Win98 boxes. SAMBA >is configured and operational. > > I have a dial up, single account with my ISP. Simplistically, I would like to >receive email, filter the content,

Re: Mail Server for home network

2002-11-04 Thread Kent Borg
[Oops, in my first attempt at sending this I didn't use my subscribed address. Second try...] On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:45:06AM +1300, Roland Hill wrote: > -MTA (sendmail, postfix, qmail etc) to deliver > [...] > If some applications are more new user friendly than others then > please advise.

Re: Mail server in Red Hat Linux

2002-10-25 Thread Alan Peery
senthil wrote: Read the HOWtos of Fetchmail and Sendmail before u start off then it will be easy !! try also "man fetchmail", and look inside there for info on fetchmailconf, a handy configuration utility. Alan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.co

Re: Mail server in Red Hat Linux

2002-10-24 Thread senthil
what kind of mail box do u have ? looks like a IMAP box. If it is then based in the message to header the mails can be parsed and delivered to local mailboxes. The admin account you are mentioning is it having the access to the entire IMAP account ? then this should be possible. Local parsing wil

Re: Mail server in Red Hat Linux

2002-10-24 Thread Mitchell Wright
If the suggestions below do not give you what you need, you can also do this with sendmail. http://www.sendmail.net/smfaq_virthost_b.shtml On 10/24/02 6:24 AM, "aljuhani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes it is possible. What you are doing is called a catch-all mail account > that accept all ema

RE: Mail server in Red Hat Linux

2002-10-24 Thread aljuhani
Yes it is possible. What you are doing is called a catch-all mail account that accept all emails and forward them to one account "admin in your case". You will need a software that access the admin account and download messages and copy according to user to users folder. Fetchmail is a good s

RE: Mail server in Red Hat Linux

2002-10-24 Thread Banze, Andreas
> Is it possible? > How? look for fetchmail -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Mail Server not accepting Mails!

2002-08-27 Thread Krishna
trying to configure Gotmail so that I can pop my hotmail account. thanks Daniel regards Krishna Krishna Shekhar Network Administrator Wiplash.com - Original Message - From: Daniel Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 3:43 PM Subje

Re: Mail Server not accepting Mails!

2002-08-27 Thread Daniel Tan
u can try setting hostname in /etc/host and did you create the user on that server? is sendmail daemon active? do a ps -ef | grep sendmail* if no, then run sendmail -bd - Original Message - From: "Krishna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 5:06 PM S

Re: mail server from source saga continues....

2002-08-02 Thread Spam Filter
The original message was sent by daniel - This message was intercepted by the Lee Enterprises e-mail filter software. Lee Enterprises prohibits the use of its e-mail system for transmission of SPAM. It is also the policy of Lee Enterprises that all electronic communication shall exhibit the h

Re: mail server from source saga continues....

2002-08-01 Thread Aly Dharshi
I concur with what Gordon has to say. I think that you may want to look into that. I also feel that you would indeed find it easier to configure, aka minimal work with another mail software such as Exim, Postfix or Qmail. They are much easier to configure less work to maintain and great support

Re: mail server from source saga continues....

2002-08-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 12:02, daniel wrote: > | Why didn't you just install Redhat's pop3 server rpm (actually it's the > | imap rpm). It the UW pop3 package and would have saved you the trouble of > | building it and perhaps not including something needed? > > 'cause i'm "practicing" for a linux

Re: mail server from source saga continues....

2002-08-01 Thread daniel
dmail). _ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. - abbie hoffman - Original Message - Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 12:30 PM Subject: Re:

Re: mail server from source saga continues....

2002-08-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 18:10, Gerry Doris wrote: > > I continue to see these claims that sendmail is insecure. However, I've > yet to see anyone actually back this up. Would you please give me the > details of why sendmail is insecure. It's install SUID root (may not be true in future versions,

Re: mail server from source saga continues....

2002-07-31 Thread Aly Dharshi
Greetings Brian, I hope that you are well. > > Sendmail has NOTHING to do with mbx, maildirs or whatever you want to use. > Sendmail is an MTA. That's a Mail Transfer Agent. All it does is get mail > from server to server. If it has happened to arrive at the right one, then > it passes

Re: mail server from source saga continues....

2002-07-30 Thread Aly Dharshi
As I mentioned then you want to look at Uni of Washington's Imap server. You can look thru' and the best way to compile it would be to compile it as RedHat Linux 7.2 I don't think that 7.3 is that invariably different so as to choke the compilation. As I also mentioned that Sendmail is a sys

Re: mail server from source saga continues....

2002-07-30 Thread Gerry Doris
On 30 Jul 2002, Andy Schuler wrote: > Since you're building your mail server from source why not look at qmail > instead of sendmail? It has many advantages over sendmail, one of the > major ones being security. There are some great step-by-step toasters > out there for building qmail on a linux s

Re: mail server from source saga continues

2002-07-30 Thread No Realm
More power to you. Sendmail is a good product, but Postfix is much easier to set up, and to be the admin of. Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:36:29 -0700 From: "daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: mail server from source saga continues To: <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: mail server from source saga continues....

2002-07-30 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 July 2002 05:24 pm, daniel wrote: > these are my options for the build: > > lnx Linux with traditional passwords and crypt() > lnp Linux with PAM > lrh Redhat Linux 7.2 > lsu SuSE Linux > s14 Linux using -lshadow to get the cr

Re: mail server from source saga continues....

2002-07-30 Thread daniel
jefferson - Original Message - Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 3:08 PM Subject: Re: mail server from source saga continues | Well if we are building from scratch I would put in my vote for Exim, having | used it for a couple of large projects, I have found that its widely maintained |

Re: mail server from source saga continues....

2002-07-30 Thread Aly Dharshi
Well if we are building from scratch I would put in my vote for Exim, having used it for a couple of large projects, I have found that its widely maintained and isn't sorry to say stagnant like Qmail is, there hasn't been a release of Qmail past 1.03 I would say and that Exim has matured to 4.x

Re: mail server from source saga continues....

2002-07-30 Thread daniel
| Well, you might want to install the imap rpm and then turn on the pop3 | server just to see if it works. This is pretty simple and you can easily | remove the package after testing. | | This should show you whether the problem is with the client config or | whether you have a problem with the p

Re: mail server from source saga continues....

2002-07-30 Thread Andy Schuler
On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 12:02, daniel wrote: > 'cause i'm "practicing" for a linux build on a machine that won't be big > enough for a redhat install. besides, i want to learn how to do things from > source and not be dependant of pre-made packages. it breeds problems just > like this one where i

Re: mail server from source saga continues....

2002-07-30 Thread Gerry Doris
> | Why didn't you just install Redhat's pop3 server rpm (actually it's > the | imap rpm). It the UW pop3 package and would have saved you the > trouble of | building it and perhaps not including something needed? > > 'cause i'm "practicing" for a linux build on a machine that won't be big > eno

Re: mail server from source saga continues....

2002-07-30 Thread daniel
| Why didn't you just install Redhat's pop3 server rpm (actually it's the | imap rpm). It the UW pop3 package and would have saved you the trouble of | building it and perhaps not including something needed? 'cause i'm "practicing" for a linux build on a machine that won't be big enough for a re

Re: mail server from source saga continues....

2002-07-30 Thread Gerry Doris
> so i managed to install sendmail > and configure it properly (i hope) > and then i went searching for pop3/imap daemons > and decided on the university of washington's ipop3 server > built it, > installed it > > and here's the good news: > i _can_ connect to the linux box from a windows box v

Re: Mail server only...

2000-12-27 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 12:38:43 Fred Edmister wrote: >Just curious, I'm about to build a system that is going to be used >for a >mail server only. Is there any part of the setup that I can change that >will make it so I don't have to go back into the config and take things >back out? Also, what

Re: Mail server only...

2000-12-27 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Fred Edmister wrote: > Just curious, I'm about to build a system that is going to be used for a > mail server only. Is there any part of the setup that I can change that > will make it so I don't have to go back into the config and take things > back out? Also, what would

Re: Mail server only...

2000-12-27 Thread Jeff Hogg
-Original Message- From: Fred Edmister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 11:51 AM Subject: Mail server only... > Just curious, I'm about to build a system that is going to be used for a >mail server only. Is there any part

Re: mail server upgrade( sendmail 8.8.7 to 8.9.3 )...pls help....

2000-02-28 Thread cnet
thanks sir you really give me an idea... i hope i could make it work -- > From: Eddie Strohmier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: mail server upgrade( sendmail 8.8.7 to 8.9.3 )...pls help > Date: Thursday, February 24, 2000 9:30 PM >

Re: mail server upgrade( sendmail 8.8.7 to 8.9.3 )...pls help....

2000-02-24 Thread Eddie Strohmier
www.bonwell.com - Original Message - From: Eddie Strohmier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 8:03 AM Subject: Re: mail server upgrade( sendmail 8.8.7 to 8.9.3 )...pls help > I assume your using sendmail 8.9.3 and was using

Re: mail server upgrade( sendmail 8.8.7 to 8.9.3 )...pls help....

2000-02-24 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> i upgraded my mail server to version 6.1 from 5.2 (linux) > i tried the same sendmail config ( sendmail.cf ) from my old server to the > new one... > > we could send messages and our new mail server can receive and store > incoming messages. > > but taking messages from the server gets

Re: mail server upgrade( sendmail 8.8.7 to 8.9.3 )...pls help....

2000-02-24 Thread Eddie Strohmier
I assume your using sendmail 8.9.3 and was using 8.8.7 before? I would venture to guess that your problem is that you have not included the names of your machine in /etc/sendmail.cw. Add your domain name and any virtual domains you may be running. This seems to be the most like cause for sendmail

Re: Mail Server Newbie (and a Portsentry question)

1999-11-03 Thread David Powers
> But if they have an account on your machine, then they will not use > aol and friends, they will use your server. And then they are > supposed to use your server's name in their sender's address and not > aol. What kind of relay problem do you forsee? I could see this not being a problem if

Re: Mail Server Newbie (and a Portsentry question)

1999-11-03 Thread rh
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 03:38:40PM -0500, George Lenzer wrote: > I just finished setting up a mail server for the first time. I am using > POP3 and have disabled IMAP since I won't be using that. I have a domain > name that is in the DNS system on the Internet. I have entered one of my > hos

RE: Mail Server Newbie (and a Portsentry question)

1999-11-03 Thread patrick
Portsentry isn't just for portscanning. The old-time method of hacking into a machine involved/involves port surfing. Rather than simply running a scanner, someone may simply try to telnet into a series of specific ports. One reason one may wish to use your port 25 could be for email spoofing -