Planet Cyprix

Hi,
This was the first workthrough that actually worked for me. I had previously tried to get postfix/courier working on Mandriva, but had givenup and used eXtremail in the end.
When interfacing roundcubemail with eXtremail it turns out they are not compatible, so I found your write-up and got everything working just fine.

I’d love to try your admin interface and help out with it.

Cheers,

Richard

I’ve been trying to get this to work under Mandriva 2008.0 but it wasn’t allowing incoming email. Doing LOTS of Googling turned up the following that needs to be used with Postfix version 2.4.5

local_transport = virtual
local_recipient_maps = $virtual_mailbox_maps

Without it, postfix tries to verify the account against the local user accounts and comes back with account name not found.

I see by the comments in the tables for active that you don’t use it,

but if you’d like to expand a little bit, you can add the following to the mysql query files for users and aliases. I quite often add temporary aliases that, after receiving the email, like to disable the address to limit my spam.

To be added to mysql_aliases.cf and mysql_users.cf

additional_conditions = AND active = ’1′

Thanks!

I’m just moving over from eXtremail and trying to figure how to get a full featured mail server. I’ll be tackling SSL/TLS next.

Okay, this is what I’ve got for the SSL/TLS

I stole this from HowToForge:

Additional applications needed:

courier-authlib
cyrus-sasl
libsasl2
libsasl2-devel
libsasl2-plug-plain
libsasl2-plug-anonymous
libsasl2-plug-crammd5
libsasl2-plug-digestmd5
libsasl2-plug-gssapi
libsasl2-plug-login

cd /etc/postfix

openssl req -new -outform PEM -out smtpd.cert -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout smtpd.key -keyform PEM -days 3650 -x509

(Fill out the appropriate fields)

Now we need to create the .pem

cat smtpd.cert smtpd.key >courier.pem

Then copy the courier.pem into the /etc/courier directory

[postfix config]

{main.cnf}

smtpd_use_tls = yes
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/smtpd.cert
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/smtpd.key

permit_sasl_authenticated

[courier config]

{imapd-ssl}

TLS_CERTFILE=/etc/courier/courier.pem

{pop3d-ssl}

TLS_CERTFILE=/etc/courier/courier.pem

[sasl2]

cd /etc/sasl2

{smtpd.conf}

pwcheck_method: authdaemond
log_level: 5
mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN
authdaemond_path:/var/lib/authdaemon/socket

Claros web mail

Now for the best webmail that I’ve found to date. it’s called Claros Intouch2:

http://www.claros.org/web/home.do

The instructions on their site is straight forward enough. They have a demo on their website.

Install:

urpmi java java-sdk tomcat5

Grab Claros Intouch2 2.2 beta and extract the contents to a temporary directory.

Copy the intouch2.war file to /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps

If Tomcat5 isn’t currently running, start it. Service tomcat5 start

Tomcat will extract the contents of the .war file into a subdirectory called intouch2

Create a webdisk directory within the intouch2 directory and chown tomcat5:tomcat5 webdisk

cd /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/intouch2/WEB-INF/config

With your favorite editor, edit the config.xml

Change the appropriate settings for your mail server

Two things to note:

Make sure the Match your directories that are created with maildirmake. I called mine Junk, Sent, Drafts and Trash so they match my current directories.

The default connection string for mysql didn’t work for me, I had to use the following to get it to work:

jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/intouch2?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf-8

Once the changes have been made, you can restart tomcat5.

Visiting the http://whateverdomain:8080/intouch2 should get you a login screen.