[NTLUG:Discuss] Mail in general (was QMAIL and open relays.)

[Elequin]

On Sat, 2001-12-01 at 09:00, Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> Just so we can start a good "my server is better than yours"
> war, I like Postfix for mail. I have it set up for SMTP Auth.
> Users send a userid/password as part of their SMTP connection.
> Only users with valid userid/passwords can send mail. Doesn't
> care where on the planet they are located.... just that they
> are a valid mail user on the system.
> 
> Sendmail has this too..... postfix had it first. QMAIL probably
> has it too.....
> 
> At any rate.... it's a good feature.

It's a great feature!

I've been running an old copy of Sendmail 8.10, back before they
supported SMTP_AUTH explicitly.  Boy, I can tell you, it was real fun to
compile in SASL, then make the necessary modifications to Sendmail to
get it working properly.  I now have a somewhat heavily modded
sendmail.cf, meaning I can't really make any other config changes using
m4 without a horribly confusing "make the .mc, m4 a different .cf, diff
the new .cf with the real .cf, figure out what to put in the real .cf"
process.  If you can ever avoid it, never edit your sendmail.cf file by
hand!!  *shudder*

I'm also running Postfix on another server, for a couple of users that
need different features for their mail.

I've been tempted lately to start messing with Majordomo or another
listserv-like software.  (Okay, so I've already started messing with
Majordomo.)  I don't understand Majordomo very well yet, and I'm rather
concerned about what kind of security risks I could be taking by having
it on the server when I don't know enough currently to configure it
properly.  Does anyone have any recommendations for a listserv that
doesn't require a lot of .cf mods, and is easy to admin?  My distro
(Mandrake) comes with Sympa, anyone used it?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

 - Eric, going to show up at a meeting someday, I swear!  ;-)