Hey guys
It's very rare i post in here, but i've recently been dabbling with the dark side! I've always been fond of freebsd over the years. i decided to build a server at work using this OS. I set it up purely for the mailman application.
I've got most of it working now, few teething issues.
I use mailman to host my websites mailing list subscribers. it works well. they get subscribed through a http request. and then when the newsletter is generated it submits to the list to distribute to my thousands of subscribers.
it was a challenge getting the app talking with postix, but i managed to get it going and got the aliases all hooked up right. it currently sends out email, but i'm still not confident i can recieve it properly.
I only have 1 IP addess to play with and since we already have mail and web servers it makes managing other services challenging.
I plan to route the e-mail through my current SMTP server. The issue i have is i cant seem to find a way to configure postix to use authentication which is a problem.
Also, since the server can't accept incoming email through port 25, i'm having to think of something else. I plan on setting up a mailbox on the exchange server with the appropriate mailman SMTP addresses and enabling pop3 account. Some how i need to make mailman or postix check the pop3 account. i think this is my only option. I was going to redirect the email internally, but since we use the smart host option on exchange, it will attempt to route through that instead internally via the DNS.
I've read its possible to do, but i can't find any good information on it. Has anyone attempted this, or configured pop3 checking with postix?
I love working with freebsd. It's so much of a challange that i've gained a new liking for computers which i lost years ago.
i've currently got apache 1.3, ftp server, wget, mailman, ssh. Setup on my server. It's a P3 600mhz, 128MB RAM, 3 9GB SCSI in RAID 0+1. despite the low spec it works very fast for what i'm doing with it. I guess without all the fancy stuff found in windows, it doesn't need a lot of power!
Anyone else used freebsd, or the mailman or postix apps? Would be great to talk to someone who has!
Cheers guys.
It's very rare i post in here, but i've recently been dabbling with the dark side! I've always been fond of freebsd over the years. i decided to build a server at work using this OS. I set it up purely for the mailman application.
I've got most of it working now, few teething issues.
I use mailman to host my websites mailing list subscribers. it works well. they get subscribed through a http request. and then when the newsletter is generated it submits to the list to distribute to my thousands of subscribers.
it was a challenge getting the app talking with postix, but i managed to get it going and got the aliases all hooked up right. it currently sends out email, but i'm still not confident i can recieve it properly.
I only have 1 IP addess to play with and since we already have mail and web servers it makes managing other services challenging.
I plan to route the e-mail through my current SMTP server. The issue i have is i cant seem to find a way to configure postix to use authentication which is a problem.
Also, since the server can't accept incoming email through port 25, i'm having to think of something else. I plan on setting up a mailbox on the exchange server with the appropriate mailman SMTP addresses and enabling pop3 account. Some how i need to make mailman or postix check the pop3 account. i think this is my only option. I was going to redirect the email internally, but since we use the smart host option on exchange, it will attempt to route through that instead internally via the DNS.
I've read its possible to do, but i can't find any good information on it. Has anyone attempted this, or configured pop3 checking with postix?
I love working with freebsd. It's so much of a challange that i've gained a new liking for computers which i lost years ago.
i've currently got apache 1.3, ftp server, wget, mailman, ssh. Setup on my server. It's a P3 600mhz, 128MB RAM, 3 9GB SCSI in RAID 0+1. despite the low spec it works very fast for what i'm doing with it. I guess without all the fancy stuff found in windows, it doesn't need a lot of power!
Anyone else used freebsd, or the mailman or postix apps? Would be great to talk to someone who has!
Cheers guys.
