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Old 01-22-2014, 12:51 AM   #1
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Eric, what email service do you use? I am asking here because I don't know your email address. Also I'm contemplating creating my own email server with Slackware. If you don't answer I won't be offended, just severely brokenhearted but seriously please answer.
 
Old 01-22-2014, 01:01 AM   #2
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Oh and the Slackware guide to creating your own email server is a bit outdated can anyone give me some help on a more current guide or explanation?
 
Old 01-22-2014, 02:13 AM   #3
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Oh and the Slackware guide to creating your own email server is a bit outdated can anyone give me some help on a more current guide or explanation?
Setting up a mail server is not exactly a trivial task. I've written a short HOWTO about the subject.

http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/L...Mail-HOWTO.txt
 
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Old 01-22-2014, 02:43 AM   #4
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Setting up a mail server is not exactly a trivial task. I've written a short HOWTO about the subject.

http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/L...Mail-HOWTO.txt
Ho Ho - what an understatement !

But it's all in French. Might as well be in Ancient Greek :-)
 
Old 01-22-2014, 03:40 AM   #5
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Ho Ho - what an understatement !

But it's all in French. Might as well be in Ancient Greek :-)
I followed this guide to setup my Slackware mail server successfuly:

http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.ph...r#Installation
 
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Old 01-22-2014, 05:42 AM   #6
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If you did not find any of my email addresses then you really did not look.

I run my own mailserver at home, using Slackware's own sendmail as the MTA and Cyrus-IMAP as the local IMAP server (using Slackbuild and package which I created for myself but never released into the open). I have plugged SpamAssassin and ClamAV into my Sendmail process, so that emails are checked for viruses and SPAM before they reach my inbox. Cyrus IMAP has a server-side filtering daemon called "sieve" so that I do not have to define rules in a mail client like Thunderbird, but the mails get sorted into sub-folders immediately when they reach my inbox.
I can access my emails from everywhere (phone, PC, etc) and for emergency access to mail I also have RoundCube running (a webmail solution).

That's my home situation. I also use GMail for a lot of other (non-family related) activities, and I use yet another mailbox on the slackware.com server. I have a truckload of email aliases too, those mails all get forwarded to my home server.

Eric
 
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Old 01-22-2014, 07:32 AM   #7
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Ho Ho - what an understatement !

But it's all in French. Might as well be in Ancient Greek :-)
Sing, O goddess, the anger of Lennart son of Redhatus, that brought countless ills upon the Slackwareans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to this forum, and many a hero did it yield a prey to bugs and alpha software, for so were the counsels of Linus fulfilled from the day on which the son of Poettering and great Volkerding first fell out with one another.

 
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Old 01-22-2014, 08:25 AM   #8
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But it's all in French. Might as well be in Ancient Greek :-)
Open a tab in your browser, go to http://translate.google.com, copy-paste the URL provided by Niki, hit the Translate button.

Niki writes clearly in French and Google Translate does an excellent job of porting that to English.

Hope this helps some.
 
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Old 01-22-2014, 08:40 AM   #9
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If you did not find any of my email addresses then you really did not look.

I run my own mailserver at home, using Slackware's own sendmail as the MTA and Cyrus-IMAP as the local IMAP server (using Slackbuild and package which I created for myself but never released into the open). I have plugged SpamAssassin and ClamAV into my Sendmail process, so that emails are checked for viruses and SPAM before they reach my inbox. Cyrus IMAP has a server-side filtering daemon called "sieve" so that I do not have to define rules in a mail client like Thunderbird, but the mails get sorted into sub-folders immediately when they reach my inbox.
I can access my emails from everywhere (phone, PC, etc) and for emergency access to mail I also have RoundCube running (a webmail solution).

That's my home situation. I also use GMail for a lot of other (non-family related) activities, and I use yet another mailbox on the slackware.com server. I have a truckload of email aliases too, those mails all get forwarded to my home server.

Eric
That's awesome! Does your ISP not block port 25 though? Back a long time ago, it used to be open until too many windows boxes were compromised and were used as spam bots. I believe ISP open port 25 if the account is a business class.
 
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Old 01-22-2014, 08:59 AM   #10
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That's awesome! Does your ISP not block port 25 though? Back a long time ago, it used to be open until too many windows boxes were compromised and were used as spam bots. I believe ISP open port 25 if the account is a business class.
When sending mails out of my LAN to the world, I use my ISP's SMTP server (the same you would have to configure in your mail client) as the Smart Host in Sendmail's configuration. Otherwise lots of emails would not get accepted because they originate from a consumer IP address range.
Receiving emails works because indeed my ISP (UPC) does not block any port. Not even for my consumer subscription.

Eric
 
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Old 01-22-2014, 09:28 AM   #11
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When sending mails out of my LAN to the world, I use my ISP's SMTP server (the same you would have to configure in your mail client) as the Smart Host in Sendmail's configuration. Otherwise lots of emails would not get accepted because they originate from a consumer IP address range.
Receiving emails works because indeed my ISP (UPC) does not block any port. Not even for my consumer subscription.

Eric
Very nice!
 
Old 01-22-2014, 10:49 AM   #12
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Sing, O goddess, the anger of Lennart son of Redhatus, that brought countless ills upon the Slackwareans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to this forum, and many a hero did it yield a prey to bugs and alpha software, for so were the counsels of Linus fulfilled from the day on which the son of Poettering and great Volkerding first fell out with one another.
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Τραγουδήστε, O θεά, την οργή του Lennart γιος του Redhatus, που έφερε αμέτρητα δεινά από τις Slackwareans. Πολλοί μια γενναία ψυχή δεν το στείλετε σπεύσει κάτω σε αυτό το φόρουμ, και πολλά ήρωας δεν θα αποδώσει ένα θήραμα σε σφάλματα και άλφα λογισμικού, για τόσο ήταν οι βουλές του Linus πληρούνται από την ημέρα κατά την οποία ο γιος του Poettering και μεγάλη Volkerding έπεσε πρώτη έξω με το ένα το άλλο.
modern but
 
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Old 01-22-2014, 10:54 AM   #13
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Thanks everyone, awesome thread! Marked as Solved.
 
Old 01-22-2014, 11:57 AM   #14
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Oh sorry one more question. Would this even be possible on an ISP (Verizon Fios) that uses Dynamic IP configuration?
 
Old 01-22-2014, 01:19 PM   #15
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That's awesome! Does your ISP not block port 25 though? Back a long time ago, it used to be open until too many windows boxes were compromised and were used as spam bots. I believe ISP open port 25 if the account is a business class.
In case your ISP blocks port 25, you can configure Postfix to use port 587 for sending messages. Just comment out one line in /etc/postfix/master.cf:

Code:
smtp       inet  n    -    n    -    -    smtpd
#smtp      inet  n    -    n    -    1    postscreen
#smtpd     pass  -    -    n    -    -    smtpd
#dnsblog   unix  -    -    n    -    0    dnsblog
#tlsproxy  unix  -    -    n    -    0    tlsproxy
submission inet  n    -    n    -    -    smtpd  --> uncomment
Reload Postfix:

Code:
# /etc/rc.d/rc.postfix reload
The popular french ISP Orange is blocking port 25, so I'm regularly using port 587.

Cheers,

Niki
 
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