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Re: Mail server for linux
Friday, Peter L. Peres blurbed:
> The usual situation I have is:
>
> - A small network is formed (off the internet). It takes a name that is
> not registered and IPs from the non-network ranges.
in other words: the sysadmin is an idiot who doesn't plan ahead.
> - People who send email have user@host at these hosts. They need to appear
> as user2@their_isp in any SMTP transaction (outgoing).
set anything you want as the return address, most MUAs will allow for
it, those who relay out by SMTP at least (like Netscape messanger)
> Some need to send
> the mail to a specific ISP mail forwarder.
Qmail can forward it for all, to the connected ISP's SMTP (ppp through
diald?)
> - Incoming mail comes from several accounts to a smaller number of users.
> These addresses need to be aliased properly (user2@some_isp -> user@here)
user maps are simple, need to rewrite the envelope for that (forward),
not the headers in the mail.
> - It is nice if the hack that passes these through the local MTA is made
> to disappear from the header, not last, to remove the appetite for hacking
> specified applications which announce themselves, later.
I'm not sure I followed about the annoncing and hacking thing.
> So I need different rewriting for outgoing envelopes and headers, on a
> per-user basis, and the same thing for incoming enverlopes and headers.
> VMailer does all this very easily. Sendmail must be wrestled with to do
> it. I don't know about qmail. That was the question, not why I need all
> this.
like I said, depending on the MUA. SMTP is easiest to fix, with pine it
takes some environment settings (see the man pages of Qmail-inject)
>
> Vmailer is very very easy to set up for such things. It still has some
> small bugs (speed-related) but it works ok.
and security ones, etc. Vmailer sounds like a second-best choice for a
mailer on too many categories.
>
> PS: What exactly made you use 'ps -fax' as a handle ? Are you testing some
> MTAs funky address parser ? <g>
it's my MUA, pine 4.10, that's changing it automatically... I use that
for anti-spam reasons...
and "ps fax" is just my favourite method to see what's running.
complements top nicely...