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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Location: Northeastern Michigan, where Carhartt is a Designer Label
Distribution: Slackware 32- & 64-bit Stable
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Originally Posted by kikinovak
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.
Didya mean?
Quote:
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.
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.
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