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"?
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?
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.
Sandy, isn't that pretty obvious? I mean, who installs <anything> without trying to use it afterwards?
I have seen a lot of people set up a mailserver without even knowing where the logfile of the server is. Then they shrug their shoulders "Oh, the crappy software doesn't work!" and leave it alone without ever checking what is happening. Month later they try again and wonder why their ip is blacklisted. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org