Switching to MediaOne

[scott at MIT.EDU (Scott Ehrlich)]

Hi Rich et al:

I was introduced to Postfix in my most recent job.  Very straightforward,
easy to install and use, and written from the ground up with security as a
major goal.  www.postfix.org

Enjoy.

Scott

On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Derek Martin wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Rich Braun wrote:
> 
> > Next up was downloading ssh from Finland so I can start copying things
> > off my old box (which I left on the RCN connection at the old house until
> > I get this mess sorted out--I don't want my email shut down for however
> > many days it'll take to stabilize).
> > 
> > Then I've figured out that the IP masquerade function aka NAT is completely
> > different in 2.2 vs. 2.0 kernels.
> 
> It's about to change again in 2.4 so you may as well not get accustomed to
> the syntax of ipchains just yet...  You CAN start using the 2.4.0-testX 
> kernels; so far they seem to be pretty stable.  Use the latest one you can
> find and apply the ac-X patches to it to be sure you'll be o.k.
> 
> > In order to stabilize, I'll need to download and configure quite a few
> > things I've taken for granted:  latest-greatest sendmail (is there a personal
> > SMTP mechanism which is more secure than sendmail?  I oughtta scrap
> > sendmail if I can), 
> 
> Unless you're receiving incoming mail via SMTP at your local machine, you
> don't need to run sendmail at all.  If you are doing that, sendmail is the
> way to go. It's complex, but there's nothing better.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Derek Martin
> System Administrator
> Mission Critical Linux
> martin at MissionCriticalLinux.com 
> 
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