Postfix, SASL and TLS. (adrian's home)

So after having bitten the bullet and installed FreeBSD, I had an excuse to install Postfix and play around with it. I've used qmail pretty much exclusively for a long time, and before that, sendmail, but not much recently. I like Postfix a lot... It has more standard style configuration files, is still being actively developed, and supports SASL and TLS almost out of the box. I've finally gotten it configured to properly authenticate via SASL over TLS today, and so this means that I can relay mail from anywhere, regardless of what my IP address is, just by authenticating to Postfix, securely over TLS. Although, since SASL is tied to the PAM at the moment, using saslauthd, it only supports AUTH LOGIN and AUTH PLAIN. Most mail clients seem to support those, including Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape, Mozilla and Eudora.

It looks like MessageWall can do lots of the same things, but is new, and Postfix can do everything that MessageWall can do rolled into one.

Found a bug in mon the other day at work, it just so happens that the 'alertafter <time interval>' directive doesn't work because of a slight bug in the code. After having submitted the patch to both the mon bug tracking database on SourceForge and also to the mon mailing list, I haven't gotten a response.

It's Christmas -- err, holiday time! Lots of family are heading this way for the at least part of December, my cousin Nicholas is getting married on the 21st of December. It's going to be a busy month!

Postfix, SASL and TLS.

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