Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:40:41 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spam and virus filter for mailserver Message-ID: <3F6F17F9.70908@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <200309212208.29190.dgw@liwest.at> References: <200309211255.20067.dgw@liwest.at> <20030921082709.0000211c.steves06@comcast.net> <200309212208.29190.dgw@liwest.at>
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Daniela wrote: [ ... ] > What MTA would you recommend (sendmail is too insecure)? The two main choices are probably postfix and qmail. > Can I just put the mail in the respective user's home directory with > fetchmail, and configure their MUA's to get mail from there? Or do I put it > in /var/mail/<username>? FreeBSD expects new mail to go in /var/mail/$USERNAME. Per se, local delivery is handled by the LDA (ie, procmail, /usr/libexec/mail.local), not by the MTA. > Can I run an MTA in a chroot environment with an unprivileged UID? You can run an MTA in a chroot'ed environment. The MTA needs to be started as root, or setuid-root in order to bind to port 25, but can then drop privileges afterwards. -- -Chuck
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