Task #2257
Updated by Florian Effenberger over 6 years ago
This issue is about refactoring the main mail server. Possible improvements include:
Dovecot (IMAP):
* Use the "passwd-file" driver for passdb and userdb to avoid using PAM or the passwd(5)/shadow(5) database
* Replace the LDA with an LMTP server to receive mails from Postfix
* Change mail storage format from maildir to mdbox, possibly compressed
Postfix (SMTP):
* Use virtual users
* Move amavis to a milter or an after-queue content filter
* replace postgrey by a tighter postscreen(8)
amavis
* consider setting Postfix' @notify_classes@ to empty
* switch to Milter
* set @-o smtpd_proxy_options=speed_adjust@ as default
* Guilhem proposed to use systemd
<pre>
Assuming you're using systemd as PID 1, a
quick and dirty fix would be to tell it to auto restart the service.
Rather than editing the unit file shipped by the package (which would be
overridden by the next amavis update), I'd go for an override
systemd.unit(5) file instead:
$ mkdir /etc/systemd/system/amavis.service.d
$ tee /etc/systemd/system/amavis.service.d/override.conf <<- EOF
[Service]
RestartSec=1min
Restart=always
#Restart=on-abnormal might be more appropriate, see
#systemd.service(5) for details
EOF
$ systemctl daemon-reload
$ systemctl restart amavis
You can see if the override systemd.unit(5) file is taken into account
with `sudo systemctl show amavis.service | grep ^Restart`.
</pre>
hostmaster alias
* consider switching to local mailbox only in case of too many notifications
domains
* switch to DNSSEC and TLSA records if feasible
antispam
* consider rspamd, incl. ARC signing