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Postfix.. Check it out at http://www.postfix.org. Its very powerful and is the future of mailing. Rgds Dhiraj Charles de Gaulle<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_de_gaulle.html> - "The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs." On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 21:15, Susan Day <suzieprogrammer at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi; > I don't want sendmail. What's a good secure email server that I can yum? I > really only need smtp right now, but who knows what the future will bring? > TIA, > Suzie > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091123/e1255741/attachment-0003.html>
Hi there -- The postfix e-mail server is one possibility. ________________________________ From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Susan Day Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 10:45 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Recommend Mail Server Hi; I don't want sendmail. What's a good secure email server that I can yum? I really only need smtp right now, but who knows what the future will bring? TIA, Suzie The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091123/56491f38/attachment-0003.html>
Susan Day wrote:> Hi; > I don't want sendmail. What's a good secure email server that I can yum? > I really only need smtp right now, but who knows what the future will bring?Postfix -- Eero, RHCE
Susan Day wrote:> Hi; > I don't want sendmail. What's a good secure email server that I can > yum? I really only need smtp right now, but who knows what the future > will bring?SMTP only provides for relaying mail. a mail server typically needs a MTA (message transfer agent, smtp such as sendmail, postfix), a MDA (message delivery agent, such as procmail), and a MUA (message user agent, such as POP, IMAP, and various local unix mail readers). any mail server is only as secure as you configure it. the usual alternative to sendmail is postfix, which many people find simpler to configure than sendmail.
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 10:45 -0500, Susan Day wrote:> Hi; > I don't want sendmail. What's a good secure email server that I can > yum? I really only need smtp right now, but who knows what the future > will bring?As others have already suggested, consider Postfix. I'm putting in my $0.02(US) so I can add my experience when I first had a need for a decent MTA. I had used Sendmail in the past, but I didn't want to fight with the arcane syntax of the config files, and at that time the add-on management tools and scripts were not nearly as friendly to a beginner. When Postfix was suggested to me, I started reading the docs on their Web site, and discovered that the learning curve is nowhere near as steep as it is with Sendmail. So far, Postfix has done everything I have needed, and with a LOT less pain. As always, YMMV.> TIA, > Suzie > _______________________________________________-- Ron Loftin reloftin at twcny.rr.com "God, root, what is difference ?" Piter from UserFriendly
thus Susan Day spake:> Hi; > I don't want sendmail. What's a good secure email server that I can yum? > I really only need smtp right now, but who knows what the future will bring? > TIA, > Suziepostfix rocks. :) HTH, Timo
Susan Day wrote:> Hi; > I don't want sendmail. What's a good secure email server that I can yum? > I really only need smtp right now, but who knows what the future will bring?Postfix is probably a reasonable choice, but I'm curious as to how you reached the decision that you don't want to use the standard, mostly-preconfigured tool without already knowing anything about the other choices. Sendmail may have a long history of exploits back in the day with it was monolithic and ran as root, but now it is probably the most carefully audited piece of code shipped in the distribution. The milter interface developed for sendmail (and now also implemented in postfix) lets you add functionality that wasn't designed in, so it is hard to imagine a mail job or environment that either couldn't handle. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
I know everyone else has said it but postfix is a great replacement for sendmail. Another tool I've found that I like is ssmtp. It's not a replacement for sendmail/postfix by any stretch but if you want a simple down & dirty tool to send email from an internal server to your main email server it's good. I use it on a server at home and on test rigs at work for emailing results of cron jobs to my own account. Don't know if it's available in yum as I haven't used it on a CentOS box yet. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 10:45 -0500, Susan Day wrote:> Hi; > I don't want sendmail. What's a good secure email server that I can > yum? I really only need smtp right now, but who knows what the future > will bring? > TIA,---- as root... yum install postfix system-switch-mail # edit /etc/postfix/main.conf system-switch-mail # choose postfix, confirm # done Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Susan Day wrote:> Hi; > I don't want sendmail. What's a good secure email server that I can > yum? I really only need smtp right now, but who knows what the future > will bring?See my slightly prior post on: Re: [CentOS] smtp+pop3+imap+tls+webmail+anti spam+anti virus It points you to: http://howtoforge.net/virtual-users-domains-postfix-courier-mysql-squirrelmail-fedora-10 Now granted this is for FC10, but I suspect it would be easy to fit into Centos. Also the patch to Postfix is for quota support. If you don't need quotas, you canprobably skip that part.
Christopher Chan wrote:>> And how many LDAP implementations have mysql/postgresql behind the LDAP >> syntax? >> >> > > Okay, I will be honest, I do not have that much ldap experience but I > was under the impression that they used Berkeley DB or something. I did > not know that some had a sql backend... > > >> So LDAP is frequently WORST than just a direct SQL table lookup >> > > We LOVE LAYERS. The Linux Kernel loves layers. We have to follow suit! > > >> . >> >> At least the few that I have dealt with. I LIKE LDAP. Much better than >> DAP any day of the year ;) >> >> >> > > Which ones are those?DAP ::= Directory Access Protocol. The OSI way. Then some english chap (been over a decade back) realized that all we needed was a Lightweight DAP in the true IETF way. Though you still find some DAPish things buried in backends that have one LDAP server asking another for data.
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