On 12/06/2012 09:15 AM, John R. Dennison wrote:
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 08:42:05AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Are there existing rpms for courier mta?
Not by any reputable repo, no. Use dovecot which is supplied by CentOS.
http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-and-domains-with-postfix-courier-mys...
People _really_ must stop following garbage like howtoforge. This site inevitably advises to disable selinux and more often than not to do the same with your firewall. Both actions are foolhardy, at best, and downright reckless otherwise.
Sigh, I just made the mistake of browsing through that article and I fear I have given myself brain cancer as a result. Using Fedora's F14 postfix which is no longer supported in any way by Fedora; patching it making it even more difficult to maintain on your own; the inevitable "You should make sure that the firewall is off (at least for now) and that SELinux is disabled (this is important!)." recommendation, etc.
Bleah.
Really, just forget that site exists.
I did this back using the F12 version of this howto, and then it was NOT on howtoforge. I still have it running on F12 and REALLY want to move off that.
Almost everything in this tutorial is now available without doing things like disabling SELinux (btw, I move the SSH port and use semanage to accomidate that).
It is good when someone does something good and then it comes easy.
When I get this working, I will put together instructions to be published somewhere. The only part which I probably CAN'T do myself is the mysql frontend; I will be using phpMyAdmin for starters.