services wizard
Dave Ihnat
dihnat at dminet.com
Tue Oct 21 01:06:47 UTC 2008
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 05:10:27PM -0600, Phil Meyer wrote:
> There is no wizard, currently, for sendmail. However, editing the
> /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file, and generating a good sendmail.cf with make,
> is almost trivial.
Almost. A very scary word...
> The various, many, and often obfuscated, options for postfix
> configurations could, at present, never be managed in a GUI.
Yes, and no. Not in a "step-by-step" GUI. However...see below.
> I would state, without any desire to condescend or berate new users,
> that sendmail and postfix are not tools for users, but are considered
> administrative.
Indeed.
> An open email relay is almost always the result of uneducated tampering,
> and constitutes a clear and present danger to all who use the Internet.
Hmm...except, usually, the packages are sent out today with defaults
that don't provide open relays.
> For these, and other more well reasoned reasons, you may never see the
> types of tools a new user would need to set up an email server.
Well, not total noob tools. But Webmin does give a rather decent
interface, some help, and prevents syntax errors that result in either
non-functional sites or open relays (unless explicitly configured.)
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Dave Ihnat
President, DMINET Consulting, Inc.
dihnat at dminet.com
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