[Workaround.org] Etch mail server r149 feedback - functionality
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petes-lists at thegoldenear.org
Wed Oct 10 16:49:14 CEST 2007
Suggested functionality improvements:
- Would it not be more upgradeable in future to install mysql-server
rather than mysql-server-5.0?
- The Squirrelmail section doesn't mention how to configure
/etc/squirrelmail/apache.conf so that you can have a better URI than e.g.
http://mail.server rather than http://server/squirrelmail/.
This is what I do:
'Configure that Squirrelmail Apache configuration,
/etc/squirrelmail/apache.conf, to enable the specific address
http://mail.server to load Squirrelmail (change the name if you call your
server something else)
#When accessed from anywhere on port 80 at mail.server, respond with
Squirrelmail:
#This also requires a DNS entry for mail.server
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /usr/share/squirrelmail
ServerName mail.server
</VirtualHost>
For http://mail.server to work you also need to register it with your DNS
server (change this if your IP address range differs). This example is for
IPCop:
Host IP address: 10.0.0.10
Hostname: mail
Domain name: server'
- "find /home/vmail/ -name '*,ST' -ctime +7 | xargs rm -f"
Better to say to tell people what the crontab file is called (/etc/crontab).
And to give the syntax for the file:
00 2 * * * root find /home/vmail/ -name '*,ST' -ctime +7 | xargs rm -f
Tell people how to change the time and frequency at which it runs.
Even better would be to give a command-line that achieves all this (this
schedules it to run daily at 02:00):
# echo "00 2 * * * root find /home/vmail/ -name '*,ST' -ctime +7 | xargs
rm -f" >> /etc/crontab
- "In the file /etc/amavis/conf.d/15-content_filter_mode you also need to
remove the '#' from the @bypass_... lines so that spam and virus filtering
gets enabled."
This should be styled so that the content is separate from the prose.
And the lines in that file in particular that are to be uncommented so
there's no confusion over "remove the '#' from the @bypass_... lines" when
you have to remove it from the lines after them too:
#@bypass_virus_checks_maps = (
# \%bypass_virus_checks, \@bypass_virus_checks_acl,
\$bypass_virus_checks_re);
#@bypass_spam_checks_maps = (
# \%bypass_spam_checks, \@bypass_spam_checks_acl, \$bypass_spam_checks_re);
- It might be worth a mention that if you have any applications on your
intranet that use your SMTP, make sure they can do authenticated SMTP and
encrypted authenticated SMTP. One of my clients has a custom .NET database
on a Windows server whose developers had to change its configuration
because it couldn't do authenticated SMTP.
Pete Boyd
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