Christian Affolter wrote:
> Hi Alejandro!
>
>> Today I write to Herbert because I lost my mail account password, but
>> now I retrieve it....so I have a question to ask you. I have Debian Etch
>> with a vserver, having a base host and two vservers. One of these
>> vservers has a LDAP server with localhost mapped to a private
>> non-routable IP and it runs OK, and the other vserver has a mail server
>> using Postfix/Courier/Amavisd-new/Spamassassin/Clamav, where I map
>> localhost to 192.168.0.1 (another private non-routable IP).
>>
>> But I can't put the mail server to work because the Postfix can't
>> establish a connection to the amavisd. Because of the variety of
>> components I suspect that amavisd-new, spamassassin or clamav are
>> hardcoded to 127.0.0.1, so I can't use a private non-routable IP as
>> localhost.
> I'm running the same setup as you within vservers, without the need for
> a "localhost" address.
>
> Postfix instances can be bound to a specific address (see man 5 master),
> the same goes for amavisd-new ($inet_socket_bind). Calamav uses a
> unix-socket and spamassassin gets called via the Perl bindings
> (Mail::SpamAssassin). However if your using the spamd, you should be
> able to bind it to a specific address too (-i <address> iirc).
>
>> My question is: do you recommend to me to map localhost to 127.0.0.1 as
>> usual in my mail server (vserver) because some mail packages could be
>> hardcoded ??? Or is it OK to continue using localhost mapped to
>> 192.168.0.1 defined as the localhost interface of my vserver ????
> It's up to you, however I prefer to use a dedicated RFC 1918 address for
> each internal service and bind each daemon explicit to the dedicated
> address.
>
>
> regards,
> Chris
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Received on Tue May 15 15:08:15 2007