> > I suppose you mean everything else will be disallowed ? Are you going > further serve mail via pop3 or anything ? You shuld keep your thousands > of users off the machine as far as logins are concerned. Nope, just port 25. No local users. > > > from the security point of view that one should take care of? Also if > > I'd opt for Immunix - or at least myself stackguard the network programs. > With no local users you can be pretty brutal about minimal s/w installed > and most s[ug]id bits cleared. I have Red Hat 7.0 Server version installed, Very minimum software installed, except for postfix, AmaViS & Kaspersky. > > someone knows howto finetune this server to perform even better, both > > hardware and software. Im most probably going to use Red Hat 7.0 or 7.1 > > I'd spend a bit of time learning about the different storage formats used > by postfix before using it on this scale. The mail wont be stored on the local server, it will be smtp forwarded to X mailserver after it has been scanned for viruses. martin > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message.