[Dovecot] Switch from MySQL/CourierMail to MySQL/Dovecot

Ricardo web at guzman.com.ar
Tue Dec 11 15:25:41 EET 2012


2012/12/7 Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>:
> Hello, new here.
>
> I am a Centos/Fedora user, and for the past 3 years have been running my
> mail server using Postfix/MySQL/CourierMail/Squirrelmail on Fedora.  The
> current incantation of the tutorial is at:
>
> http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-and-domains-with-postfix-courier-mysql-and-squirrelmail-centos-6.2-x86_64
>
> Well it is time to rebuild my mailserver; this time on Centos 6.3. My goal
> is to use supplied rpms, not to build my own (and rebuild everytime there is
> an important update).  So I am pulling quotas which has been a pain anyway,
> and I am investigating using Dovecot in place of CourierMail.  In Centos
> 6.3, the version of Dovecot is: 2.0.9-2
>
> I am looking for a tutorial to assist in the setup, as I am nowhere an
> expert on any of this (I am a communications security expert in the IETF and
> IEEE 802).  There are a couple items that I have come to depend on in my
> current setup that are musts in anything new:
>
> Virtual user/domain
>
> That is, not only virtual domains, but also users defined by domain.  So in
> the MySQL user table, the email value is set to user at domain.  Thus a user
> can receive/send mail from multiple domains with the same addr and only
> those domains defined for the user in the user table.
>
> Obviously there is no coupling of Linux user accounts and email accounts.
> CourierMail is storing mail under /home/vmail/domain/user/...
>
> Encrypted passwords
>
> The passwords in the user table in MySQL are encrypted.  This will be used
> to auth the user for POPing or IMAPing and sending their mail.  I have
> encountered a few tutorials where it seems like passwords are stored in the
> clear?
>
> Anyway, not much else!  Well as far as the user interface is concerned.
> Postfix with clamav and spamassassin and maybe one or two extras.  And
> SquirrelMail for Webmail.  A better gui than phpMyAdmin for maintaining the
> tables would be nice, but I don't have a lot of users, so it works well
> enough.
>
> Can someone point me to a tutorial best suited to my needs?
>
> Also any firewall rules, as I don't want to turn off iptables (and
> ip6tables) and any SELinux policy rules to add.
>
> Oh, and IPv6 will be a must in the near future, so anything needed to ensure
> IPv6 working right as well.
>
> Thanks
>
>

Hola  a todos

disculpen por mi idioma español..

aqui eh llegado hacer andar mi servidor de correo,  aquí te paso un
link que esta muy bien explicado aver si te sirve


http://www.exratione.com/2012/05/a-mailserver-on-ubuntu-1204-postfix-dovecot-mysql/

con postfixadmin anduvo bárbaro. solo lo probé un rato, no lo tengo en
producción. si te animas a configurar y si te anduvo avísanos por aquí
o si te falta algo te paso mi archivo.conf


saludos

Ricardo


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