Author: bhuvan
Date: Sat Aug 25 04:15:29 2007
New Revision: 4295
Modified:
trunk/generic/server/C/mail.xml
Log:
Merge the changes r4157 and r4093 from serverguide/C/mail.xml to
server/C/mail.xml.
Modified: trunk/generic/server/C/mail.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/generic/server/C/mail.xml (original)
+++ trunk/generic/server/C/mail.xml Sat Aug 25 04:15:29 2007
@@ -142,6 +142,17 @@
</screen>
</para>
</step>
+ <step><para>Turn off the chroot operation for SMTP server.
Locate
+ for the following line in
+ <filename>/etc/postfix/master.cf</filename> file:</para>
+<screen>
+smtp inet n - - - - smtpd
+</screen>
+ <para>and modify it as follows:</para>
+<screen>
+smtp inet n - n - - smtpd
+</screen>
+ </step>
</procedure>
<note>
<para>
@@ -184,8 +195,8 @@
<para>
A few changes are necessary to make it work properly. Because
<application>Postfix</application> runs chrooted in
<filename>/var/spool/postfix</filename>, <application>SASL</application> needs
to be configured to run in the false root
(<filename>/var/run/saslauthd</filename> becomes
<filename>/var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd</filename>):
<screen>
-<command>mkdir -p /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd</command>
-<command>rm -rf /var/run/saslauthd</command>
+<command>sudo mkdir -p /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd</command>
+<command>sudo rm -rf /var/run/saslauthd</command>
</screen>
</para>
<para>
@@ -220,7 +231,7 @@
<para>
Next, update the dpkg "state" of
<filename>/var/spool/portfix/var/run/saslauthd</filename>. The saslauthd init
script uses this setting to create the missing directory with the appropriate
permissions and ownership:
<screen>
-<command>dpkg-statoverride --force --update --add root sasl 755
/var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd</command>
+<command>sudo dpkg-statoverride --force --update --add root sasl 755
/var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd</command>
</screen>
</para>
</sect2>
@@ -420,13 +431,14 @@
disable_plaintext_auth = no
</programlisting>
- The <emphasis role="strong">cert</emphasis> and <emphasis
- role="strong">key</emphasis> files are created automatically
- by <application>dovecot</application> when you install it. Please
note that these keys
- are not signed and will give "bad signature" errors when
- connecting from a client. To avoid this, you can use
- commercial certificates, or even better, you can use your own
- SSL certificates.
+ You can get the SSL certificate from a Certificate Issuing
+ Authority or you can create self signed SSL certificate. Please
+ refer to <xref linkend="creating-a-self-signed-certificate"/>
+ for details about how to create self signed SSL certificate. Once
+ you create the certificate, you will have a key file and a
+ certificate file. Please copy them to the location pointed
+ in the <filename>/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf</filename>
+ configuration file.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
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