[vox-tech] mail server config question

[David Rosenstrauch]

Cylar Z wrote:
> I'm wondering - is there some sort of "yahoo-like" web
> interface I could install on my system? I'm not
> talking about a pop/smtp client like Outlook or
> Squirrelmail (which I am guessing is Outlook's Linux
> counterpart). If possible, I'd prefer to avoid setting
> up the POP3/SMTP functionality this would require,
> mostly because I've looked at the documentation for
> Postfix and can't see a way to do that without leaving
> an "open relay" that spammers could exploit.


There really isn't a security issue.  As long as your mail server box is 
behind a firewall, there's no open relay worries.  I do this very thing, 
using squirrelmail, exim, and courier-imap.  Yes, my server is listening 
on the SMTP and IMAP ports, but I don't have those ports open to the 
outside world.  My firewall blocks them, but leaves open port 80 (and 
more importantly - 443, https).  I can then access my mail system via 
squirrelmail over https.  Squirrelmail, which runs in apache on the 
server, can then talk to the SMTP and IMAP daemons, but nobody else from 
the outside world can.

HTH,

DR