[CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

[Arun Khan]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:

> I recently, perhaps foolishly, changed over a remote server
> from sendmail/procmail to postfix/amavis/spamassassin/clamd ,
> and I'm finding it difficult to configure this setup.
>

It would have been helpful, if you had described briefly what was your
sendmail setup e.g. relaying mail through smart host, authenticating local
users before allowing relay etc.



>
> The CentOS document <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix>
> explicitly says that its instructions may not work in CentOS-6.
> Does anyone know of reasonably simple postfix documentation
> for CentOS-6?
>
>
What is the harm in trying out and finding for yourself?   Postfix's
main.cfhas all the conceivable configuration that most sites would
deploy.

+1 to everyone's responses.


> I've been amazed how bad the postfix documentation is.
> It actually seems to be worse that sendmail documentation,
> which I thought established a record for this sort of thing.
> The official documentation at
> <http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html>
> is ludicrously wordy, with every conceivable option
> listed in random order.
>

I would suggest read the overview doc to see how the various modules work
together <http://www.postfix.org/OVERVIEW.html>

I abandoned sendmail and switched to postfix a long time ago and was glad
that RHEL6/CentOS6 has switched to it as the default MTA.  I found postfix
documentation easier to follow.   As with any software package, I budgeted
time for a little trial and error got it working for my requirements.

Alternately, you can try iRedMail.  It is a collection of scripts that
checks and installs all the requisite packages for an email server with
pop3+imap support + RoundCube web mail; it supports CentOS6.

Try it if you don't want to muck around hand editing conf files.   iRedMail
details <http://www.iredmail.org/>

HTH,
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Arun Khan
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