Posted by: kfieldho
on September 09, 2008 01:27 PM
No, it's not that hard to secure a mail server (though the proliferation of spam that takes advantage of mis-configured servers indicates that people do get it wrong often enough).
In my case, I try to minimize exposure of services to the Internet on general principles. Since I already need to expose SSH so that I can access my network, I concentrate on securing that, and use the fact that ssh works quite nicely as a SOCKS proxy (see ssh -D) for Thunderbird and access my internal IMAP server that way. Alternatively, you could expose the IMAPS (IMAP + SSL) port and access the IMAP server directly.
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Re: How to build a local IMAP server
Posted by: kfieldho on September 09, 2008 01:27 PMIn my case, I try to minimize exposure of services to the Internet on general principles. Since I already need to expose SSH so that I can access my network, I concentrate on securing that, and use the fact that ssh works quite nicely as a SOCKS proxy (see ssh -D) for Thunderbird and access my internal IMAP server that way. Alternatively, you could expose the IMAPS (IMAP + SSL) port and access the IMAP server directly.
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