[pve-devel] [PATCH v2 pve-manager] Allow email adresses with a toplevel domain of up to 63 characters

[Cesar Peschiera]

Many thanks for your reply Emmanuel

But i think that such options should be well known by all. Who has not had a 
problem of SPAM?, or Who has not tried to strengthen security in his mail 
server to avoid sending Spam?. And it is for the danger reasons of SPAM that 
i don't want configure my email server with relays when the mail server is 
out of the LAN.

Moreover, if the PVE developers don't think that such options are good, if 
anybody can tell me how configure my PVE host manually for that can send 
emails with auth and without a relay (and if is possible, with ssl/tls and 
port number to use), please give me a web link for that i can do a practice, 
i will be very thankful !!!.

Anyway, many thanks for your recommendations.

Best regards
Cesar

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Emmanuel Kasper" <e.kasper at proxmox.com>
To: "Cesar Peschiera" <brain at click.com.py>; <pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 4:17 AM
Subject: Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH v2 pve-manager] Allow email adresses with a 
toplevel domain of up to 63 characters


>> Hi
>>
>> Please, let me to do a question:
>>
>> Several mail servers require auth for accept a message (for after send
>> it to
>> addressee), so my question is if is possible add this option in PVE GUI.
>> (and if is possible, also choose a port number, and a SSL/TLS connection)
>>
>> Notes:
>> 1)All programs that i know has these options for choose, and i think that
>> will be fantastic have these options enabled in PVE.
>>
>> 2) When i administer the mail server, and the server is in the LAN, i
>> configure a relay in the mail server for each PVE node, but such setup
>> isn't
>> the ideal, and when the mail Server is out of the LAN (ie, in the WAN),
>> such
>> setup is not recommended (for avoid the problems of SPAM that may have 
>> the
>> computers into the LAN), so i can not configure the send of mails in the
>> PVE
>> nodes that are into the LAN... :-(
>>
>> Best regards
>> Cesar
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> Hi Cesare !
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> You ask a goodf question, but unfortunately we cannot add a checkbox in
> the Web GUI for every bit and blob option that a SMTP server or Qemu 
> knows.
> If we do this, we satisfy the power users, at the expense of getting 80%
> of the users confused by having even more options for simple tasks
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> It is much better to propose sane defaults in the UI which cover most of
> the use case, and leave the extra bits to manual editing of the
> configuration files.
> postfix is a depency of pve-manager, so all proxmox hosts have it
> installed. So instead of fiddling with SSL expiration date in
> pve-manager, it is much better to delegate the handling of this to 
> postfix.
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> Now going back to the situation of having the SMP relayhost outside from
> the LAN, I see at least two ways of setting that up:
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> * you can configure the relayhost, to only relay mail coming from your
> LAN external IP adress
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> * as an extra step you can also configure postfix on the proxmox host to
> send email via SSL and Authentification to your relayhost, there is a
> good howto on that here, using Google SMTP servers as the relayhost but
> it should work with any mail server.
> http://mhawthorne.net/posts/postfix-configuring-gmail-as-relay.html
>
> Best Regards
> Emmanuel
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