> I'm trying to set up postfix on a Fedora box on campus. I've never > set up a mail server before. I installed Postfix as a part of the > Fedora installation, and everything in ./config/main.cf seems to set up > correctly. My question is, now that Postfix is installed, how do I add > user mail accounts? Also, do I need to install a separate IMAP or POP3 > server? Thanks!
I had to deal with this yesterday. First of all, the version of Postfix that comes with Fedora has a serious bug in it; sometimes when it tries to e-mail out it gets an error in the /var/log/maillog that is something like: "unexpected record type: 84" The only rpm that I found that would work is: (from freshrpms.net) ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/contrib/libc6/i386/postfix-2.0.16-3.rh9.i386.rpm I needed to make sure the db4 compat libs were installed too. What I usually do is have local system accounts act as the mail accounts too (you can set up virtual users though). Just make sure you have the xinetd and imap daemons (apt-get install imap) installed. Then make sure xinetd is running and you can turn on the imap daemon in /etc/xinet.d (just edit each file you want to use and set disabled = no). Remember that /var/log/maillog is your friend. -Evan -- /********************************************************************\ Evan McNabb: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://evan.mcnabbs.org System Administrator, CS Department, BYU GnuPG Fingerprint: 53B5 EDCA 5543 A27A E0E1 2B2F 6776 8F9C 6A35 6EA5 \********************************************************************/
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