Author: bhuvan
Date: Wed Sep 12 08:17:48 2007
New Revision: 4343
Modified:
trunk/generic/server/C/mail.xml
Log:
* generic/server/C/mail.xml
Update for postfix section. Add sudo for all postconf commands.
Patch by: Adam Sommer
Modified: trunk/generic/server/C/mail.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/generic/server/C/mail.xml (original)
+++ trunk/generic/server/C/mail.xml Wed Sep 12 08:17:48 2007
@@ -72,27 +72,45 @@
Replace mail.example.com with your mail server hostname.
</para>
</note>
+ <para>
+ Now is a good time to decide which mailbox format you want to use.
By default
+ Postifx will use <emphasis role="strong">mbox</emphasis> for the
mailbox format.
+ Rather than editing the configuration file directly,
+ you can use the <command>postconf</command> command to configure
+ all <application>postfix</application> parameters. The
+ configuration parameters will be stored in
+ <filename>/etc/postfix/main.cf</filename> file. Later if you
+ wish to re-configure a particular parameter, you can either
+ run the command or change it manually in the file.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To configure the mailbox format for <emphasis
role="strong">Maildir:</emphasis>
+ </para>
+<screen>
+<command>sudo postconf -e 'home_mailbox = Maildir/'</command>
+</screen>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ This will place new mail in /home/<emphasis
role="italic">username</emphasis>/Maildir so
+ you'll need to configure your Mail Delivery Agent to use the same
path.
+ </para>
+ </note>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="postfix-smtp-authentication" status="complete">
<title>SMTP Authentication</title>
<para>The next steps are to configure
<application>postfix</application> to use SASL for SMTP
- AUTH. Rather than editing the configuration file directly,
- you can use the <command>postconf</command> command to configure
- all <application>postfix</application> parameters. The
- configuration parameters will be stored in
- <filename>/etc/postfix/main.cf</filename> file. Later if you
- wish to re-configure a particular parameter, you can either
- run the command or change it manually in the file.</para>
+ AUTH.
+ </para>
<procedure>
<step><para>Configure Postfix to do SMTP AUTH using SASL
(saslauthd):
<screen>
-postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_local_domain ='
-postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes'
-postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous'
-postconf -e 'broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes'
-postconf -e 'smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination'
-postconf -e 'inet_interfaces = all'
+sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_local_domain ='
+sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes'
+sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous'
+sudo postconf -e 'broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes'
+sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination'
+sudo postconf -e 'inet_interfaces = all'
</screen>
Open the <filename>/etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf</filename> file and add
the following lines to end of the file:
@@ -127,18 +145,18 @@
</step>
<step><para>Configure Postfix to do TLS encryption for both
incoming and outgoing mail:
<screen>
-postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_auth_only = no'
-postconf -e 'smtp_use_tls = yes'
-postconf -e 'smtpd_use_tls = yes'
-postconf -e 'smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes'
-postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/smtpd.key'
-postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/smtpd.crt'
-postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem'
-postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1'
-postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_received_header = yes'
-postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s'
-postconf -e 'tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom'
-postconf -e 'myhostname = mail.example.com'
+sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_auth_only = no'
+sudo postconf -e 'smtp_use_tls = yes'
+sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_use_tls = yes'
+sudo postconf -e 'smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes'
+sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/smtpd.key'
+sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/smtpd.crt'
+sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem'
+sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1'
+sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_received_header = yes'
+sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s'
+sudo postconf -e 'tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom'
+sudo postconf -e 'myhostname = mail.example.com'
</screen>
</para>
</step>
@@ -386,9 +404,9 @@
<filename>/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf</filename> and change
the following line:
<programlisting>
-default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir # (for maildir)
+mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir # (for maildir)
or
-default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u # (for mbox)
+mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u # (for mbox)
</programlisting>
</para>
<note>
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