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Linux Server Security, Second Edition
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Linux Server Security, Second Edition

by Michael D. Bauer
January 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
544 pages
23h 44m
English
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Chapter 9: Securing Internet Email
useful sometimes to write certain types of messages to a text file rather than to a
mailbox.)
One caveat: if an alias points to a different mail server, that server
must belong to a domain for which the SMTP gateway is configured to
relay mail (i.e., either that server’s FQDN or its domain must be listed
in the
relay_domains declaration in main.cf).
Don’t forget to run postalias /etc/aliases any time you edit aliases. postalias con-
verts the alias file into a database file that can be searched repeatedly and rapidly
each time a destination address is parsed; neither Postfix nor Sendmail directly use
the text version of aliases.
Keeping Out Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE)
Postfix offers protection against UCE via several settings in main.cf. Some caution is
in order, however: there’s a fine line between spam and legitimate dissemination,
and it’s entirely possible that even modest UCE controls will cause some legitimate
(i.e., desired) mail to be dropped.
Having said that, for most sites, this is an acceptable risk (avoidable, too, through
end-user education), and we recommend that at a minimum you set the following in
main.cf (for a complete list of anti-UCE parameters and their exact syntax, see /etc/
postfix/sample-smtpd.cf):
smtpd_recipient_limit ...
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