Sandy Drobic wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Sandy Drobic wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Sandy Drobic wrote:
Setting up a mailserver is very easy if you don't want to use it. Setting up a mailserver correctly and maintain it correctly is something that needs a lot of knowledge and work.
This goes for ISP installations as well as for small business installations and private servers. Hey guys, don't scare Hans away - setting up a postfix mailserver for a single domain in openSUSE is not that difficult, including getting it right. The vanilla config needs a couple of tweaks, and he'll need to amend a couple of DNS records, but isn't that pretty much it? No, it isn't!
Well, I beg to differ. What you're talking about is not required to run a minimum mailserver in a sufficiently safe manner.
We probably have a different definition of "sufficiently safe". What do you regard as "sufficiently safe"?
I think the vanilla openSUSE config is actually sufficiently safe. You need to make it listen on your public address, and set up the DNS records, but I think that's it. I haven't done one of those in a long time, this is from memory.
That is exactly the reason why I mentioned to also "maintain a mailserver". The very least you must do is to set up a minimal monitoring like a daily report with pflogsumm and the aquire the knowledge to understand this report.
Funny, I don't do that.
Is it really funny? So what do you do instead of a pflogsumm report? How do you notice that something is wrong with your server?
It's funny because you find it to be the very least you need to do, where as I don't find it necessary at all. As for finding out when something is wrong - something goes wrong only when things are changed, so I control change very carefully. I check, double check and test every single change that is made to our servers. I have a test-system where every change is tested first etc. The thing is - all Hans asked was how to set up a simple mail server for receiving mail - and that does not require "a lot of knowledge and work". IMHO. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-2.1°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org