Re: [Sheflug] MTAs

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

David Morris wrote:
> 
> >
> >  I'm playing with the idea of running qmail on my box...however I'm
> > clueless...
> >
> >  Would it mean I could send out going mail, and still have a reply
> > address of TheEnglishman@ecosse.net not baz [at] flux.localdomain (which
> > wouldn't be too useful)?


 I'm just looking to fetchmail'ing from my POP account at ecosse.net and
sending out going mail from my box.

 I'm a home user with a couple of machines. I don't have a fulltime
connection nor an assigned IP (dynamic from the ISP only).

 The other reason I'm looking at installing a MTA is that I've just
installed the ArsDigita Community System  - http://www.arsdigita.com/ -
for development.
 The ACS can do quite a bit of mailling both to local users
(me/oracle/AOLserver admins etc) and external users (users of the ACS).

> >  Is there any point?
> 
> .in using qmail? Yes. It's easier to configure than sendmail (IMO), and
> according to the blurb, is a hell of a lot faster. It's also intrinsically
> more secure - it doesn't run as root for one. Having said that, I also have
> a machine running sendmail, relaying mail picked up from an old mail account
> which is retrieved using fetchmail and pushed into qmail for final delivery.
> 
> The maildir format used by qmail for message storage is also safer in the
> event of a crash. Only one message potentially could get trashed, rather
> than the whole file.

 All ways a good idea..isn't there a security idea behind qmail
mailspool setup too?
 
> Although we're not a big site, I run qmail on a 200MHz Pentium with 64M RAM
> for around 150 users using MS clients (predominantly Outlook98).
> 
> Anyway, isn't the reply-to address set by your client?
> 

 I'm not too sure. I have seen the field, but I wasn't sure if the MTA
would hijack this.

 Baz.

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