Re: Suggest good mailing list server

["Ravikant K.Rao" <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:29:37PM +0530, M K Saravanan wrote:

> Kindly suggest me a good mailing list server for our Centre use.  If I

	Majordomo? Anything GPL seems to get busted - Mailman,ezmlm - I
dont like ListServ

> want to run the following services in a linux machine what security
> precaution that i should take care of since I am having the bad habit of
> selecting "Install Everything" option in RedHat CDs.  some time back

	Don't install RedHat ;) More seriously, Read the Security-HOWTO

> somebody in the list told that by default there will be lot of loopholes
> in RH Installation particular if we want to run it as a server.

> * Web Server

	ApacheSSL with mod_ssl and other SSL/security patches.
	Disable CGI.

> * Mail Server

	qmail/postfix.

> * DHCP Server
	
	-shrug-

> * FTP Server

	OpenBSD's ftpd - comes stock with Debian - Better still, disable
ftp, use scp.

> * ipchains (firewall)

	secure ipchains?! *nuh uh*

> * Mailing list server

	Majordomo - read above.

	-ravi

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