[Dovecot] Step-by-set Postfix/Dovecot/LDA?

[Roderick A. Anderson]

Quey wrote:
> Hi Rod, what OS are you using?
> the one Markus showed is good for debian as its design is based on 
> debian, but there is another one for using other distros, much more 
> generic so its best for slackware and centos etc at 
> http://kb.ausics.net/pf.php

Thanks.  Some more interesting takes on the process.

Right now I'm fighting Postfix and TLS.  Mostly missing (never 
generated) files.

Turned off TLS and now I'm getting a dovecot-deliver.log file error from 
Postfix.

Oh well.  I'll keep on plugging at it.


Rod
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> On 02/10/08 23:23:06, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
>> Markus Reymann wrote:
>>> Hi,
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>>> I set up my Services using this howto:
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>>> http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/
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>> Thanks Markus.  This looks very promising.  Between an example I 
>> received and what I've done so far hopefully I'll have it today.
>>
>> The interesting issue right now is I think I've got my firewall in a 
>> knot.  I can't even telnet to the mail server port.  So I can't even 
>> test if what I've got so far is any where near good.  !#$%
>>
>>
>> Rod
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>>> BR,
>>>
>>> Markus
>>>
>>>> Anyone know of a /complete/ step-by-step HOWTO for setting up a system
>>>> using Postfix, Dovecot, and Deliver?  I'm looking to put a new mail
>>>> server together that will host three domains with pretty low volumes of
>>>> email.  Later adding three or four more for some non-profits that I 
>>>> host.
>>>>
>>>> I'm finding my self skipping all around the Postfix and Dovecot sites
>>>> trying to come up with this setup.
>>>>
>>>> I have set up Postfix in several different configurations: inbound
>>>> spool, outbound SMTP, regular mail server, etc.  And with Dovecot I was
>>>> lucky as it ran for me pretty much out of the box.  Of course that was
>>>> on a single domain mail server.  (Not to mention it is a really old
>>>> version.)
>>>>
>>>> Since it went up I've added a couple of domains to my personal
>>>> collection and rather than add a new mail server for each I thought I'd
>>>> go the virtual route.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have a complete set of example .conf files they could share?
>>>>
>>>> main.cf, master.cf
>>>> dovecot.conf
>>>>
>>>> Isn't it about time for a Dovecot book?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> TIA,
>>>> Rod
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