From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 5 10:54:58 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA2B816A417 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 10:54:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8D5E13C474 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 10:54:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w9so2290456mue for ; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:54:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nlH+Xj3GFE8nkdjJYZv9EhtbQQcSRZYwzobiuT7rMMWTT+TNE0Jtf+vHz5+CBtRquqK0TjEVDS9ofJmnOZoj/g+9BuPhcf2I1Ahk5h8d/O+Pfuq1Y4o1cZLFEPnfGmKj+WESz5fwcAZA6bZAypIYlMfQfl3rKEbuipvPo7AC31E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=X9SgQHdAvcf5FQuNgCoslwuDiTrMVYk4XnROui11AHi+1MJwhyeTr5ActkcJac9Qmm9stIsBEna/TMK6gYe4GUuIKPlaVPgdOqu/bhRrlM1Fogd8f7Cb4LjhTWqZNAKN6JaLsg/cyD3JYS3Vd7NS/+lk47YUPO7/hYL08e9aX/I= Received: by 10.82.177.3 with SMTP id z3mr8743084bue.1188989683119; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:54:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.191.14 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 03:54:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20709050354q4d186df4y6958e2f81d5dfc66@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 06:54:43 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200709050640.l856eQ7f026093@eunet.yu> Cc: Nikola Lecic , "Russell E. Meek" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server setup questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:54:58 -0000 > 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