Re: Home network mail server

[Steve Shockley <steve_(_dot_)_shockley_(_at_)_shockley_(_dot_)_net>]

Sean Kelley wrote:
> Good question.  A friend told me that I should not be running a mailserver
> with essentially user accounts as it was a security risk.  He recommended
> using Qmail with vpopmail using Mysql as a backend.  That seems extremely
> complicated for a home network with 8 or so accounts and aliases.  I was
> just wondering if I was doing something wrong.  When I looked at Qmail in
> the past, it kind of confused me as the source code never changes but instead
> you have to scour the net for various and sundry patches.  I visited
> the qmailrocks.org
> website and it seemed like overkill to me.

That's one of the reasons I went with Courier instead of Qmail. 
According to its license, nobody can distribute modified versions of 
Qmail, so everything is done through patches to the base software.  (The 
license is more complex than that, but that's the core of the issue.)

I use accounts on the local box, and I don't consider it an unreasonable 
risk with strong-enough passwords.  I wouldn't give relative strangers 
an account on the machine.

I know Courier-MTA supports ldap, mysql and postresql backends.