Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 06:54:43 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@eunet.yu>, "Russell E. Meek" <rmeek@russellmeek.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server setup questions Message-ID: <80f4f2b20709050354q4d186df4y6958e2f81d5dfc66@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCOEEPCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <200709050640.l856eQ7f026093@eunet.yu> <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCOEEPCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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> Jim posted here asking for help, using words and language that > gives serious doubt that he is competent to run a mailserver > of any kind. Knowledgeable and competant are two different things. If I were not competant, I would not bother attempting to get that knowledge that I lack. I don't know the nitty gritty details about exactly what and how mail servers are encrypted. I don't know all the nitty gritty details about how everything talks and intercommunicates. I do know that that any time a password goes over the internet (not just LAN) it needs to be encrypted as securly as possible. I do know that mail (and other) servers should live in jails. I do know not to run an open relay (take email from any server to deliver to any server, without authentication, and plan to achieve this by only allowing incoming mail). I do know that there is no such thing as too much paranoia when setting up a server. I know to find out and learn what I don't know, rather than to just stumble along blindly. There, that about covers everything that I do/don't know. -Jim Stapleton
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