Speaking of mail etc

[miah]

Procmail is trivial to setup with postfix:

# The mailbox_command parameter specifies the optional external
# command to use instead of mailbox delivery. The command is run as
# the recipient with proper HOME, SHELL and LOGNAME environment settings.
# Exception:  delivery for root is done as $default_user.
#
# Other environment variables of interest: USER (recipient username),
# EXTENSION (address extension), DOMAIN (domain part of address),
# and LOCAL (the address localpart).
#
# Unlike other Postfix configuration parameters, the mailbox_command
# parameter is not subjected to $parameter substitutions. This is to
# make it easier to specify shell syntax (see example below).
#
# Avoid shell meta characters because they will force Postfix to run
# an expensive shell process. Procmail alone is expensive enough.
#
# IF YOU USE THIS TO DELIVER MAIL SYSTEM-WIDE, YOU MUST SET UP AN
# ALIAS THAT FORWARDS MAIL FOR ROOT TO A REAL USER.
#
mailbox_command = /usr/local/bin/procmail
#mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail -a "$EXTENSION"


Seriously, thats it.

So my vote is for postfix.  The postfix team has designed a great and secure MTA.  The only reason I'd run sendmail is if I wanted to get owned.

For IMAP, I've used courier and cyrus, courier is much easier to setup/configure.  It works well with users that want to login and check their mail with pine.  CYRUS is great too, but it stores all the mail in its own proprietary db format, which means users logging in to check mail will be out of luck.  Maybe you can configure around that now, but thats how it worked last I checked.

-miah

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:16:06PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:06:01 -0400
> "Ryan L. Kitchen" <rkitchen at coe.neu.edu> wrote:
> 
> >     As a noob and Lurker of BLU, I am required to ask the obvious:
> > What do people who are on Blu use for their MTA and server?  I am in
> > the process of setting up CYRUS IMAP and Postfix, but I am diffident.
> > 
> > I am not exactly sure what I am doing, and that makes it all the more
> > interesting. If anyone has HOWTO's for their particular flavor, boy
> > I'd like a link.  I'm setting up the IMAP client so mail can can be
> > accessed from my RH9 box/server and from my XP machine, the road,
> > whatever, and not be spread between "n" different mail clients. I am
> > even looking at setting up Squirrelmail for truly remote mail
> > checking when I don't have a client available.  I would like to use
> > GPG/PGP, I would like to use SSL or some other form of authentication
> > for SMTP etc.
> > 
> > I'm going slow, but i'm looking for pointers to at least avoid the
> > big blunders. what are other people out there using?
> I think you'll get into a religious discussion. Postfix is an excellent
> MTA, but I prefer sendmail for two reasons:
> 1. When I installed postfix a while ago, I was unable to get procmail to
> run, and I use procmail to filter all my email. So, I just used
> sendmail. 
> 
> 2. I know how to configure it to get it to do what I want. 
> 
> GPG is supported my most Linux based email clients and should not prose
> any problems. GPG or PGP is also suported by many Windows clients, but
> may require a commercial plugin. 
> 
> SSL works through sendmail and fetchmail. 
> 
> -- 
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
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