email newbie

[stromboli2]

hi people! ,

i'm new in this having a email server on my own. in my previous servers i had, i had disabled sendmail for security reasons. i only use the server for a couple of mail accounts.

i have 2 questions.

a. is secure to have all the email thingies that comes with directadmin? (i mean is there the posibility to install qmail or something?)
b. how can I use a more secure mail system than pop? pop trough ssl? through ssh? i'm a newbie here so i don't have an idea of what is the common system to avoid sending plain text at least between my server and me.
cordially,
strom

 

[jmstacey]

Exim is the only mail software available for Directadmin. It would be possible to install other softare but you would have to do that on your own. Although I don't know why anybody would want to use qmail which hasn't been updated in what, 4 year?

It is possible to setup exim to use secure connections. Although I have not done this to any of my servers and it is not done by default during the directadmin installation, it is certainly possible. This may be of some help: http://exim.org/exim-html-4.40/doc/html/spec_37.html#IX2330

Oh and fyi. DA does not use sendmail, exim is the only mail delivery application uses, sendmail is just a link to exim.

 

[nobaloney]

Although I don't know why anybody would want to use qmail which hasn't been updated in what, 4 year?

More like six years. I don't even see any recent references to Dan Bernstein's current involvement at all.

It is possible to setup exim to use secure connections. Although I have not done this to any of my servers and it is not done by default during the directadmin installation, it is certainly possible. This may be of some help: http://exim.org/exim-html-4.40/doc/html/spec_37.html#IX2330

I'm fairly sure the original poster was more interested in secure POP. I'd say the best place to look would be in a forum supporting the POPper DA uses.

Jeff