Basic mailserver : qmail courier-imap and user DB

[vivi]

Hi ,

I am a mailserver newbie who had read qmail is a good mailprogram.

Following the information on :
http://lifewithqmail.org
and
http://www.skunkworx.org/guides/QmailOnGentoo.txt
I have been able to install it

Now I use Sylpheed as mail client and want to run a IMAP service and SMTP service on my localhost.
What is the easy way to do this ? (I do not need full configuration , at least not for the moment)
Do I need other programs than qmail ?
How to add SMTP and IMAP users ?

Thanks,
Vivi

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[vivi]

Thanks a lot ,

The link :
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=111817

seems to be very interesting however still too!!! complicated for my setup as I need a BASIC setup. For now I do not need spam control , scanning , virus , etc....

How can the script from that link (doing a copy paste below) ,
be changed so I only have:
-an MTA : install qmail
-an account database : install vpopmail
-an LDA : ? install maildrop ?
-an IMAP interface : install courier-imap
-Admin tool : install qmailadmin

Futher at which points can you do
telnet smtp ?
telnet pop3 ?
telnet imap ?

Can I configure pine to use mailboxes for testing ?

Thanks,
Vivi

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Copy/paste :
1) ensure that the proper USE flags are set

Code:
> nano -w /etc/make.conf
add apache2, maildir, and mysql as USE flags.


2) install qmail

Code:
First of all, make sure that you unmerge the other mail handlers that may be installed, such as ssmtp, sendmail, or postfix:
> emerge -C ssmtp sendmail postfix
> emerge qmail
> ebuild /var/db/pkg/net-mail/qmail-1.03-r13/qmail-1.03-r13.ebuild config

> ln -s /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send /service/qmail-send
> ln -s /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd /service/qmail-smtpd

> rc-update add svscan default
> /etc/init.d/svscan start


3) install vpopmail

Code:
> emerge vpopmail
First log into mysql as your mysql root user and pass. Then:
> create database vpopmail;
> use mysql;
> grant select, insert, update, delete, create, drop on vpopmail.* to vpopmail@localhost identified by 'your password';
> flush privileges;

If you have problems with vpopmail not accepting mail properly,
please ensure that /etc/vpopmail.conf is chmod 600 and
owned by vpopmail:vpopmail


4) install spam database clients. net-ping and dcc may need to be force-emerged.

Code:
> emerge pyzor
> emerge /usr/portage/dev-perl/net-ping/net-ping-2.31.ebuild
> emerge razor
> emerge /usr/portage/net-mail/dcc/dcc-1.2.28.ebuild


5) install f-prot and Mail-SpamAssassin. they must be running before installing qmail-scanner.

Code:
> emerge f-prot Mail-SpamAssassin
> nano -w /etc/conf.d/spamd.conf
SPAMD_OPTS="-d -u vpopmail -v -x -C /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf"
> rc-update add spamd default
> /etc/init.d/spamd start

You'll want to set up a cron.daily job to update the f-prot definitions automatically:

> nano -w /etc/cron.daily/virus-update.cron
#!/bin/bash
/opt/f-prot/check-updates.pl -cron -quiet
> chmod 755 /etc/cron.daily/virus-update.cron
> crontab -e
# min hour day month weekday command
0 1 * * * /etc/cron.daily/virus-update.cron

Now to set up spam processing rules:

> nano -w /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
required_hits 5.0
rewrite_subject 1
subject_tag *****SPAM*****
report_safe 1
report_header 1
use_bayes 1
auto_learn 1
skip_rbl_checks 0
use_razor2 1
use_dcc 1
use_pyzor 1
ok_languages all
ok_locales all


6) install qmail-scanner. for this to work, you may have to force the install of maildrop.

Code:
> emerge /usr/portage/net-mail/maildrop/maildrop-1.5.3-r1.ebuild
> emerge qmail-scanner

Please log into the "qmaild" account and run
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl -g

If you see the error "Can't do setuid", or "Permission denied", then
refer to the FAQ.

(e.g. "setuidgid qmaild "/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl -g"
or "su qmaild -c "/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl -g")

The 'subject_tag' variable in /etc/mail/sendmail/local.cf does not seem to change the subject of detected spam. As a workaround, do this:

> nano -w /var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl
my $spamc_subject='*****SPAM*****';

Now update tcp.smtp to activate qmail-scanner

> nano -w /etc/tcp.smtp
# Qmail-Scanner disabled for mail from 127.0.0.1
127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT="",RBLSMTPD="",QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue"
# Qmail-Scanner enabled (virus only) for mail from local network
192.168.1.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="",RBLSMTPD="",QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl"
# Qmail-Scanner enabled (virus and spam) for mail from external internet
:allow,QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl"

save tcp.smtp and then:

> tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp
> chmod 644 /etc/tcp.smtp*


7) install courier-imap as imap and pop3 server

Code:
> emerge courier-imap
> nano -w /etc/courier-imap/authdaemonrc
authmodulelist="authvchkpw"
> nano -w /etc/courier-imap/imapd
IMAPDSTART=YES
MAILDIR=Maildir
> nano -w /etc/courier-imap/pop3d
POP3DSTART=YES
MAILDIR=Maildir
> rc-update add courier-imapd default
> rc-update add courier-pop3d default
> /etc/init.d/courier-imapd start
> /etc/init.d/courier-pop3d start


update the smtpd config to allow smtp-auth using vpopmail

Code:
> nano -w /var/qmail/control/conf-smtpd
QMAIL_SMTP_POST="mail.mydomain.com /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true"
> svc -t /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd
> chmod u+s /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw

The following step makes sending mail a lot faster under some circumstances, and I highly recommend that you do the following if you notice delays of 30 to 45 seconds sending mail:

> nano -w /var/qmail/control/conf-common
TCPSERVER_OPTS="-H -R -l 0" (that's lower-case L followed by zero)


9) install qmailadmin

Code:
> emerge ezmlm-idx-mysql
> wget http://www.inter7.com/devel/autorespond-2.0.2.tar.gz
> tar -zxvf autorespond-2.0.2.tar.gz
> cd autorespond-2.0.2
> make
> make install
> wget http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/qmailadmin-1.0.6.tar.gz
> tar -zxvf qmailadmin-1.0.6.tar.gz
> cd qmailadmin-1.0.6
> ./configure --enable-htmldir=/var/www/localhost/htdocs/ --with-htmllibdir=/var/www/localhost/htdocs/qmailadmin --enable-cgibindir=/var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/ --enable-autoresponder-bin=/usr/local/bin --enable-ezmlmdir=/usr/bin --enable-ezmlmidx=y --enable-vpopuser=vpopmail --enable-vpopgroup=vpopmail
> make
> make install

[Robelix]

Hi vivi!

Is there any good reason that you use qmailadmin-1.0.6 and not the 1.2.0_rc2 from protage?

Robelix
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