debain-powerpc: exim, zmailer, SSL.
Brendan J Simon
I've setup an email server on a PowerMac G4 for some people at work. I
used exim and it seems to work pretty well. To receive email from
outside the company some kind of security is needed. Forgetting about
VPNs for now, I thought that SSL might be the way to go. It seems exim
doesn't have any SSL support but I noticed zmailer does. I tried
installing zmailer-ssl and it gave me the following error:
"No /etc/zmailer/db//smtp-policy.src input file"
Should I be worried about this error ?
Why do I get this error when installing for the first time ? Is the
package broken ?
zmailer claims to be faster and able to handle more traffic than exim,
though does say that exim is more than adequate for most users. I'm
running a mail server that will serve between 10-20 people. I think
exim would be fine but I would like to have the ssl option.
Is there any SSL options for exim ?
Are there any other mail servers with SLL support ?
Has anybody got any comments (good or bad) on exim and/or zmailer ?
Thanks,
Brendan Simon.
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Sergio Brandano
The easiest thing to do, in order to receive and send email safely,
is to ssh on the machine, then run a text mail client. You may play
around for a different solution, but the underlying problems will not
be solved. To quickly see my point here, think about the SPAM and the
blacklisting phenomenon. The present situation, as I understand it,
is that the MTA does not certify the sender. This is what triggers
the SPAM relay problem, the need for blacklisting and the consequent
impediment to send emails as us...@your.brand.com via say, aol.com.
Using SSL sounds good, but is not standard and is not that easy.
Sergio
>Brendan J Simon wrote:
>
>I've setup an email server on a PowerMac G4 for some people at work. I
>used exim and it seems to work pretty well. To receive email from
>outside the company some kind of security is needed.
Michael Schmitz
You can try to use sslwrap to encapsulate SMTP over SSL - no idea what
would be required on the client side here.
Michael