[CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

Patrick Lists centos-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl
Thu Sep 12 11:35:41 UTC 2013


On 09/12/2013 12:03 PM, Timothy Murphy 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.
>
> 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?

Read "Postfix: The Definitive Guide" or "The Book of Postfix". Years ago 
I read the first and used it to setup multiple domains with virtual 
accounts. Works perfectly to this day. Also heard good things about the 
2nd book. Both should give you ample knowledge how to setup Postfix.

> 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.

Imho the Postfix documentation is excellent. Admittedly it does not do 
any handholding but once you are familiar with it, it's very helpful to 
have such an elaborate overview of all possible options.

I would suggest to start with a basic Postfix setup without all the 
bells and whistles, get that going and then slowly add things like 
anti-spam rules, amavis etc. Using git for your configs helps reverting 
if something blows up.

Regards,
Patrick



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