Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2831 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 20 July 2006 00:26, John N. Alegre wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 July 2006 16:37, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > Setting up the config you want with cyrus IMAP is very simple on
> > SUSE. If that's good enough for you I could put together a step by
> > step howto
>
> Please do.

Concept: A mail server that doesn't accept remote connections to deliver mail. 
Mail are fetched from a remote server that handles incoming connections, and 
delivered locally to an IMAP server (cyrus)

Packages needed: postfix, cyrus-imapd, fetchmail, fetchmailconf (GUI for 
configuration of fetchmail, not strictly needed)

I'm assuming either SUSE Linux 10.1 or SLES 10 here (note that in SLES 10 you 
can do this through the YaST mail server module as well)

Step 1: install the required packages.

Step 2: configure postfix
   edit /etc/sysconfig/postfix and change POSTFIX_LOCALDOMAINS to include your 
email domain. For example if you have an email address foo@xxxxxxx it should 
be

POSTFIX_LOCALDOMAINS="bar.com"

also change POSTFIX_MDA so it reads

POSTFIX_MDA=cyrus

Then run SuSEconfig --module postfix

Step 3: start cyrus and its authentication daemon
   rccyrus start
   rcsaslauthd start

Step 4: restart postfix
   rcpostfix restart

You now have a working mail/IMAP server. At this point you need to create an 
account on the cyrus server. If you open an email client and configure as 
incoming account to point to the cyrus server, it will automagically create 
the account for you. However, by default the quota will be set to 10MB, which 
might be a little low for you( I know it is for me), so before you do this, 
you may want to edit /etc/imapd.conf and set autocreatequota: to something a 
little higher (it needs to be more than 0, otherwise the account won't be 
automatically created)

Step 5: configure fetchmail
   either manually, if you know the config file syntax, or through the 
fetchmailconf GUI

Step 6: run fetchmail
   If in the config you set it up as a daemon, run it as a daemon, otherwise 
set up a cron job to run it at regular intervals (not sure how specific I 
need to be about this step)

That should be all. I actually set up my desktop machine as a mail server as I 
went along, to verify each step, so the above should be relatively accurate, 
but I may still have missed something, so for your forgiveness in advance I 
beg

Hope this helps

Anders


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