From graham.allott at gmail.com  Wed Feb 21 18:01:40 2024
From: graham.allott at gmail.com (Graham Allott)
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 18:01:40 +0000
Subject: [IoMLUG] Is this list still alive?
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Finally got Postfix / Dovecot up and running with TLS, after starting from
scratch a few times :-)
I'd changed the domain name in all the mail configs, updated /etc/hosts,
but I hadn't updated the "dns_domain_name_lo" in the net config file and I
think that caused TLS issues - at one point virtual domains were working
fine but the canonical domain wasn't....

No spam yet but I've old spamassassin configs from when I was running
Qmail, will set that up soon, also I've Geo-IP blocking set generally,
which helps.....


On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 10:49, Dylan Smith via IoM <iom at mailman.lug.org.uk>
wrote:

>
> On 22/01/2024 22:07, Liam Proven via IoM wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 at 18:32, Graham Allott via IoM
> > <iom at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> >> If anyone has any tips for setting up Postfix / Dovecot on Gentoo
> > Blimey. That's a combination.
>
> I've not run it on Gentoo (I've never used Gentoo) but I've been running
> Postfix and Dovecot on Debian for probably at least the last 15 years. I
> don't really have any tips for it, it just worked out the box on Debian.
> SpamAssassin is a must if you've got an email address that's been around
> for a while (at its peak, around 2010 to 2012, I was blocking over 1,000
> spam emails per day to my main email address, today it's not as bad,
> only between 30 and 60 spam emails a day - spammers really have reduced
> a lot in numbers but there's still enough around you need a decent spam
> filter). SpamAssassin is invoked through procmail so its behaviour can
> be set on a per-user basis.
>
> Mostly it's about tuning SpamAssassin, certainly the Debian package out
> of the box is quite conservative about what it blocks (e.g. it doesn't
> put much score on for domains found in URIBLs for instance, making a
> local SA config to up the scores of your favourite block lists improves
> things).
>
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