[TriLUG] Jason's Email Server Notes

[Jason Purdy]

Joshua Gitlin wrote:

> I'm going to be setting up a new email server this weekend from scratch, 
> and I was looking for Jason Tower's notes from his presentation in July. 
> Does anyone know where I can get a copy? Thanks.

I will admit my bias upfront and say I'm a Debian fan.  Sure, you don't 
get a lot of Boy Scout badges in the process of installation, but it's 
easy, fun and secure and leaves you time to spare to worry about other 
things that life throws your way.

That said, if that sounds cool to you, after you get Debian going, you 
do an:

apt-get -qyu update
apt-get install postfix procmail webmin webmin-postfix

I believe that's right ... in your Debian installation, you may have 
already selected those packages to install ... not real keen on trying 
it out on my production box, but it should work.

After it's done, you can go to:

https://localhost:10000

In the "System" section, you can add your local users/groups.  In the 
"Servers" section, there's a Postfix icon that you can click on, setup 
Mail Aliases, Virtual Domains, etc.

The best part?  After you're all up & going ... all you need to do to 
keep your system secure is:

apt-get -qyu update
apt-get -qyu upgrade

If there's a postfix (or webmin, procmail or any other package that's 
already installed) patch, it will apply it very seemlessly.

The one disadvantage of going this route is that by default in Debian, 
it doesn't offer the SMTP Auth (TLS/SASL?) nor the popular maildir 
storage technique (it's all in a mbox flat file).  I believe you can add 
postfix-tls after the fact, though... I just noticed that as a package.

Have fun!

Cheers,

Jason