Speaking of mail etc

[clint at neotrance.dyndns.org (Clint M. Sand)]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:06:01PM -0400, Ryan L. Kitchen wrote:
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>     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 use postfix to handle mail, and i ssh to my machine and use mutt. So,
no need for pop/imap. I've done imap/pop before though and it was as easy as
just uncommenting imap/pop from inetd.conf (i use bsd, redhat is a different
thing but the same point).

Bare in mind that if you open imap to the internet and use that
remotely, you're sending your account password in a very vulnerable
format.

If you're looking for a quick and easy way to tunnel pop/imap over ssl,
you can use stunnel. It works regardless of whether your particular
pop/imap daemon supports ssl. (www.stunnel.org)

For howto's, pick an mta and check their site. 2 minute google search
revealed this. Check it out.

http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/RH-postfix-HOWTO/book1.html

> Ryan K
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