On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 15:19 -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 02:22:43PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Actually there is at least one that would work for a small office and > > someone who has to ask on a mail list about one might want to consider it: > > SME server from http://www.contribs.org. You could install that on a > > new box, add users with the web interface and be working faster than > > you could decide what components to use under fedora. It actually uses > > an odd mix of things but you don't need to know much about them to > > install and use them - it's all fill-in-the-form administration. > > Given all the potential security issues that are inherent in a mail > server, I'm not sanguine about the idea of using a packing in which > everything is installed and ready-to-go. I'd be happier to see someone > spend some time educating themselves before becoming a potential target > on the 'Net. (But I will check this package out.) It is about as paranoid as you can get in a server that offers the option of being both a user server and an internet gateway. The setup automatically firewalls unused ports and also sets up hosts.allow/deny entries. > Do you have first-hand experience with it, or have you investigated it? I used the earlier versions in some small remote offices and considered it the only Linux distro that I would trust someone without experience to install and have the root password. There are some serious tradeoffs in the way it uses perl templates and a web-managed database to build all the config files though. While it does most things the way you would want with some simplified concepts like combining unix permission groups and email groups from the admin standpoint, if you do need to customize anything it is not much like anything else. My approach has been to use it as-is where it works because it is completely painless to install but my company structure has changed to where I don't need small office servers now. The current version just released (7.0) uses Centos 4.x as the base so it should be pretty solid. I have a copy running under VMware holding some big imap mail folders of my own but that's all I've done with this version. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
