Re: MailServer

[Harry Rainier <obsd0312@yahoo.com>]

Good question!  Well, I don't know if they suggest
it, but here's what they run:


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% dig openbsd.org mx

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> openbsd.org mx 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      openbsd.org, type = MX, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
openbsd.org.            1D IN MX        7 openbsd.cs.colorado.edu.
openbsd.org.            1D IN MX        10 cvs.openbsd.org.

;; Total query time: 752 msec
;; FROM: ruby.xnet.xx to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1
;; WHEN: Mon Apr  1 13:17:22 2002
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 29  rcvd: 88

% telnet cvs.openbsd.org 25
Trying 199.185.137.3...
Connected to cvs.openbsd.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 cvs.openbsd.org ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.2/8.12.1; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 13:24:07 -0700 (MST)
QUIT
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I think that the sendmail code that comes with
OpenBSD has been audited by OpenBSD.  Even
knowing that, I for one sleep better at night
by running djbdns (instead of BIND) and
qmail (with TMDA anti-spam) on OpenBSD.

Although it may not hold true any more, I still
have fond memories of the good ol' sendmail
patch-o-th'-week/BIND patch-o-th'-week days.

Give djbdns and qmail a whirl.  I think
you'll be glad you did.

http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
http://www.djbdns.org/
http://www.lifewithdjbdns.org/
http://www.fefe.de/djbdns/
http://www.qmail.org/
http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html
http://www.lifewithqmail.org/
http://software.libertine.org/tmda/


--- Shoto <shoto@nixsolve.com> wrote:
> I was able to get sendmail to work ok for outside world by doing this 
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m , however
>  I think i will check out qmail, it seems to be a very popular mta. I 
> guess OpenBSD has there reasons for compiling sendmail the way they did, 
> security reasons obviously, but I wonder what they would suggest for a 
> outside mailserver?
> 
> Thanks for the help...
> 
> 
> David Neal wrote:
> 
> >   Shoto  wrote: I want to run a mailserver on my
> >OpenBSD 3.0 stable box, i noticed that the sendmail on
> >Openbsd has been compiled now to only accept mail
> >locally and not from the world. What am I to use for a
> >mailserver to accept mail from out side world? smptd?
> >smtpfwdd?Any help would be greatly
> >appreciated...thanks..
> >
> >Nothing keeping ya from recompiling sendmail to work
> >normally... otherwise check out qmail.
> >Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover
> >http://greetings.yahoo.com/
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