Postfix Won't Work

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: skyking

Originally posted by: Crusty
If you want to run your email server you need to get a business class ISP, have a static IP, own a domain, and your ISP needs to add a reverse DNS record for your IP -> Domain so you can send mail to places like Yahoo with little to no trouble. You'll probably want a TXT record with spf info in it as well to help fight spam. Running an email server is quite a bit more complex then something like a web server or ftp server, and there are 100 times the security headaches to worry about as well.

That is the hard truth of it. I got all that done for one of my clients, and eventually migrated them elsewhere due to the high overhead of keeping it all working, spam and virus free. it was a reat learning experience but not worth it for the limited numbe of users.
I still have that static IP and reverse DNS record, quest was good about setting that up for me.

Heh, we use postfix as our MTA, with dovecot for client POP3/IMAP access. clamav-new + amavis + spamassassin for cleaning out the mail. It's a pain in the ass to get setup unless you've scripted it or just have pre-installed images in various formats like we do

 

[skyking]

ditto on your setup, except dovecot.