[CentOS] Postfix setup
Craig White
craig.white at ttiltd.com
Wed Mar 13 15:30:12 UTC 2013
you need an IMAP server / MTA to handle login accounts since Postfix provides SMTP.
Dovecot? Cyrus-IMAP?
Craig
On Mar 12, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Austin Einter wrote:
> Dear All
> I have got partial success with postfix setup. So far I am able to do
>
> 1. Access the postfix admin
> 2. Was able to login to postfix admin
> 3. Created one more admin account
> 4. From newly created admin account sent a mail to my gmail account, and I
> received that mail.
> 5. I am able to add a domain
> 6. I was able to add a virtual mailbox
>
> However many things are NOT working. Things that I have observed NOT
> working are
>
> 1. Not able to login to mailbox through roundcube
> In link https://www.example.com/webmail/ (after security exception
> confirmation) , I entered the user at example.com and password.
> It says "*Connection to storage server failed.*".
>
> Any idea why it happen?
>
> I checked my /home/vmail path. I hope here there will be individual
> folder/file for individual mailboxes (not sure though). Did not see any
> file/folder as of now.
>
> Kindly guide why it gives "*Connection to storage server failed.*".
>
> Thanks
> Austin
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> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 6:54 AM, SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:02 AM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca
>>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, March 11, 2013 16:56, Craig White wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----
>>>> develop good, consistent habits… postfix or whatever config files you
>>>> edit, backup the distribution's version of the config file first
>>>> before you ever edit…
>>>>
>>>> cp main.cf main.cf-dist
>>>>
>>>
>>> Alternatively:
>>>
>>> yum install postfix
>>> yum install git
>>> cd /etc/posfix
>>> git init
>>> git add ./
>>> git commit -m"Postfix config file initial commit"
>>>
>>> Now all the default config files are stored as hashed blobs in
>>> /etc/postfix/.git and you can modify them in place. Once you are
>>>
>>
>> Nice. git-r-done ;)
>>
>> I've been rather content with using RCS (as opposed to other version
>> control systems) on the individual boxes.
>>
>> Version control of some sort is a must.
>> And backups ... multiple backups ... :D
>>
>>
>>> satisfied with your latest set of changes do this (always issue git
>>> commands from the repository root, in this case /etc/postfix):
>>>
>>> git add ./ or git add <filename>
>>> git commit -m"explanation of why the changes were made"
>>>
>>> If you screw up and need to get back what was there originally do this:
>>>
>>> git checkout <filename>
>>>
>>> If you want to see what was different between this config and the
>>> previous version do this:
>>>
>>> git diff <filename>
>>>
>>> You can compare any previous version of any tracked file with any
>>> other version of the same file by specifying the commit ids.
>>>
>>> git diff <commit1_sha>..<commit2_sha> -- <filename>
>>>
>>> Git also provides a blow by blow history of all changes applied to a
>>> file and what logon id made them.
>>>
>>> git blame <commit1_sha>..<commit2_sha> -- <filename>
>>>
>>> See http://git-scm.com/ for details on what git is and how to use it.
>>> I use git for version control of system config files on all my uptime
>>> sensitive servers. It makes getting back to a working config trivial
>>> when things turn ugly following a change.
>>>
>>> --
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>>
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