Posts tagged Postfix
Setting up a backup MX host with Postfix
- 21 July 2023
Running a backup MX host is a good idea if you want to ensure that e-mails are not lost if your primary MX host is down. With Postfix, this is easy to set up on a Debian or Ubuntu system as both are shipped with Postfix.
Mail servers that are misconfigured can be used to send spam. Therefore, you should closely monitor your mail server and make sure that it is not misused by spammers. In case of any doubt, you should shut down your mail server immediately.
Disabling SSLv3 in Postfix
- 28 April 2015
The POODLE attack was made public in late 2014 and most vendors have taken action to solve possible issues related to POODLE. The time definitely has come to close SSLv3 in all parts of the public-facing infrastructure. By default Postfix still only disallows SSLv2 and hopefully, this will change in the form of stricter default behavior in Postfix or distributions/vendors that stop shipping SSLv3 libraries.
For now, you can set with the postconf command restrictions which protocols shouldn’t be used by Postfix.