CentOS Community, I was wondering if anyone had a good resource or procedure for a step by step in installing a mail server with Centos. There ARE documents on google, however almost all that i've found were outdated from 2005. Does anyone know where I can find this type of document for a mailserver Postfix + MySQL + SpamAssassin + ClamAV + Squirrelmail + Postfixadmin, etc?
http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-and-domains-with-postfix-courier-mysql-and-squirrelmail-centos-6.0-x86_64 On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Jonathan Vomacka <juvix88 at gmail.com> wrote:> CentOS Community, > > I was wondering if anyone had a good resource or procedure for a step by > step in installing a mail server with Centos. There ARE documents on > google, however almost all that i've found were outdated from 2005. Does > anyone know where I can find this type of document for a mailserver > Postfix + MySQL + SpamAssassin + ClamAV + Squirrelmail + Postfixadmin, etc? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 11/08/11 10:10 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote:> I was wondering if anyone had a good resource or procedure for a step by > step in installing a mail server with Centos. There ARE documents on > google, however almost all that i've found were outdated from 2005. Does > anyone know where I can find this type of document for a mailserver > Postfix + MySQL + SpamAssassin + ClamAV + Squirrelmail + Postfixadmin, etc?http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-Mail_Servers.html is as good a place to start as any. not sure why mysql has to do with email servers.... yes, I know, you _can_ configure email servers to use SQL databases as the message stores, but I really don't think you _should_ do that, it just adds more overhead. spamassassin has its own documentation, and frankly, its a big complex set of tools, there's no one 'right' way to set it up, as spam is a big complex problem. each mail administrator will have to weigh the pros and cons of the various options and how acceptible they are to his environment. docs are here, http://spamassassin.apache.org/doc.html squirrelmail is not actually a mail server, its a web based mail reader. its also not a standard part of the centos distribution. see http://squirrelmail.org/ postfixadmin, I dunno, never used it. I don't believe its supplied by CentOS, but its probably available from various third parties... I manage my mail servers with shell tools. you left out an important part of a mail server, which is a mail user agent such as dovecot or cyrus, these provide the POP and IMAP protocols that a user mail client such as Thunderbird need to read the mail. the basics of setting these up should be covered in the redhat doc above. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Jonathan Vomacka <juvix88 at gmail.com> wrote:> CentOS Community, > > I was wondering if anyone had a good resource or procedure for a step by > step in installing a mail server with Centos. There ARE documents on > google, however almost all that i've found were outdated from 2005. Does > anyone know where I can find this type of document for a mailserver > Postfix + MySQL + SpamAssassin + ClamAV + Squirrelmail + Postfixadmin, etc? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >Hi, Maybe, somebody could recommend any good books about complete mail server open source solution? Sorry for OT.
Alain P?an <alain.pean at lpp.polytechnique.fr> wrote:>>These two links, even if I read them rapidly, seem more accurate : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Amavisd << A few years ago, I followed the Postfix/amavisd/spamassassin/ClamAV HOWTO on the Centos Wiki and had two inbound mail gateways set up in next to no time with no pain*. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos#head-0facb50d5796bee0bd394636c32ffa9a997a6ab5 and especiallly http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Amavisd Best, --- Les Bell [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 * Oh, all right - there was some SELinux pain, as always, but a few minutes with audit2allow got the policy tweaked.
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 01:10 -0500, Jonathan Vomacka wrote:> CentOS Community > I was wondering if anyone had a good resource or procedure for a step by > step in installing a mail server with Centos. There ARE documents on > google, however almost all that i've found were outdated from 2005. Does > anyone know where I can find this type of document for a mailserver > Postfix + MySQL + SpamAssassin + ClamAV + Squirrelmail + Postfixadmin, etc?MySQL has nothing to do with mail. If you can avoid using it - avoid it. The just-throw-everything-in-mysql approach to life has never made sense to me. For CLAMAV you need to have clamd running and a milter. I'm not certain what milter's are current - when I set one up they were all had equally stale documentation. Does CentOS currently ship a working clamav milter? SPAMAssasin is a monster and the documentation is *BAD*. But I've gotten it working. Just post specific questions. Postfix is pretty straight-forward and the project documentation useful once you get used to its odd/unfriendly structure. There are numerous books about Postfix - do any of these do a better job at a drive through? I have no idea what Postfixadmin is; I've never seen much point in an MTA admin tool. And MTA is pretty much setup and let it run. Squirelmail is an application; just use their documentation [although I'd recommend Horde over Squirrel]. You don't mention a mail store [IMAP Server]? Such as Cyrus IMAP. Something for Postfix to deliver the mail too. I have a document "WMOGAG" that has chapters on Cyrus and Postfix. It certainly isn't exhaustive, but it covers the stuff I've run into. More about Cyrus than Postfix. You might find it useful - and feedback is appreciated. <http://sourceforge.net/projects/coils/files/WMOGAG-Coils.pdf/download>
----- Original Message -----> From: "Jonathan Vomacka" <juvix88 at gmail.com> > To: centos at centos.org > Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2011 10:10:28 PM > Subject: [CentOS] Postfix mail server procedure > > CentOS Community, > > I was wondering if anyone had a good resource or procedure for a step > by > step in installing a mail server with Centos. There ARE documents on > google, however almost all that i've found were outdated from 2005. > Does > anyone know where I can find this type of document for a mailserver > Postfix + MySQL + SpamAssassin + ClamAV + Squirrelmail + > Postfixadmin, etc?Save yourself from the headache of setting all this up and just use the open source version of Zimbra. It installs very cleanly on CentOS. http://www.zimbra.com/downloads/os-downloads.html David.