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! 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. If your server is abused through an insecure webserver script you at least must be able to notice this, so you can shut down your server until you can secure your server. At that point I haven't even said anything about checking if your server actually works as desired. That at least is mainly your own problem if the server does not accept the desired mails. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org