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Topic: iRedmail questions.

First of all I would like to acknowledge you guys for developing this script. I have a goal to finish in 5 days with regards to setting up a mail server, I'm considering on using the one on howtoforge.net (uhh is it ok to post links here, sorry mods if ever its not allow) titled; iRedMail: Build A Full-Featured Mail Server With LDAP, Postfix, RoundCube, Dovecot, ClamAV,SpamAssassin, DKIM, SPF On CentOS 5.x

the things I just have to consider though are does this script use maildir as a default mail format? because i'll be migrating like 500-600 users..

next is i wanna add atmail webmail as an alternate webmail client to roundcube.. and lastly could I add postfixadmin here to manage the email accounts?


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Re: iRedmail questions.

Postfixadmin is already installed and you can use it.
Maildir is the default format, but you can change that if you want.
See here:
http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/wiki/ … ation_Tips

I don't see why you can't add it if it allowed you to connect to a database to get the information.

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Re: iRedmail questions.

Of course you can add extra components after you deployed iRedMail.

Note: PostfixAdmin only available when you use MySQL backend to store virtual domains & users.

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Re: iRedmail questions.

thanks for the fast reply. @ scrummie02 really appreciate it. yes as I see it postfixadmin was already added, and maildir is the default format. I have another inquiry sir, is there a step by step guide that could teach me to use mysql instead of ldap/

thanks alot..

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Re: iRedmail questions.

The steps is the same as the tutorial you saw on Howtoforge, and here is *official* installation guide (for RHEL/CentOS 5.x):
http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/wiki/Installation

PS: iRedMail -current works on Debian 5.0.1 and Ubuntu 9.04 (one issue retained on 8.04, will be fixed later):
http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/wiki/ … _on_Debian
http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/wiki/ … _on_Ubuntu

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Re: iRedmail questions.

@zhang

thanks sir, ill keep you posted in the coming days with regards to my installation smile

thanks a bunch to the iredmail team smile

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Re: iRedmail questions.

Enjoy smile

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Re: iRedmail questions.

If you install iRedmail with LDAP, you can still get a gui for the postifx configuration files via the webmin interface. Can install via yum after doing yum update, then yum install webmin.

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Re: iRedmail questions.

If you use wehmin, please comment below lines in /etc/postfix/main.cf:

mail_name =
mail_version =

Webmin uses them to detect MTA and version.

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Re: iRedmail questions.

thanks guys for the guidelines, i haven't started on the mail server yet. my machine is not here yet big_smile hehe

i'd be doing it via my sql tho smile

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Re: iRedmail questions.

david@knapp.org wrote:

If you install iRedmail with LDAP, you can still get a gui for the postifx configuration files via the webmin interface. Can install via yum after doing yum update, then yum install webmin.

I try to use webmin manage iredmail ldap, but seem the webmin support ldap not very well.

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Re: iRedmail questions.

I think your hostname not setting correctly.

reuqire use FQDN name.

http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/wiki/Installation

read the guide setting the hostname

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Re: iRedmail questions.

I was able to fix the fqdn issue but.

I cannot recieve mails from the outside. I can send mails from my server to google, I just can't recieve mails from google and the mails the are sent from google receives a delivery failed report.

## sending out to google from my domain

Jun 13 04:39:07 dps-mail postfix/smtp[3835]: D6CDF50EC06: to=<dbesteves@xinapse.net>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=0.73, delays=0.19/0/0/0.54, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok, id=03814-02, from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 6305150EC0A)
Jun 13 12:39:07 dps-mail postfix/qmgr[3128]: D6CDF50EC06: removed
Jun 13 12:39:11 dps-mail postfix/smtp[3887]: 6305150EC0A: to=<dbesteves@xinapse.net>, relay=aspmx.l.google.com[209.85.210.87]:25, delay=4.2, delays=0.01/0.01/2.2/2, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK 1244867951 27si4534361yxe.3)
Jun 13 12:39:11 dps-mail postfix/qmgr[3128]: 6305150EC0A: removed

## sending to mydomain from google

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

     testing@dec.edu.ph

Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 511 511 sorry, no mailbox here by that name (#5.1.1 - chkuser) (state 14).

help anyone

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Re: iRedmail questions.

no mailbox here by that name

It seems the recipient address not exist in your MYSQL/LDAP?

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Re: iRedmail questions.

Jun 15 14:17:32 dps-mail postfix/cleanup[3744]: 74BF750EC10: message-id=<d9627e3e73872f9373215abb6aff1ce0@127.0.0.1>
Jun 15 14:17:32 dps-mail postfix/qmgr[3025]: 74BF750EC10: from=<testing@dec.edu.ph>, size=923, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jun 15 14:17:32 dps-mail amavis[3446]: (03446-01) Passed CLEAN, MYNETS LOCAL [127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1] <testing@dec.edu.ph> -> <dbesteves@xinapse.net>, Message-ID: <d9627e3e73872f9373215abb6aff1ce0@127.0.0.1>, mail_id: rJAi5V4sT0cj, Hits: -2.623, size: 503, queued_as: 74BF750EC10, 1058 ms
Jun 15 14:17:32 dps-mail postfix/smtp[3745]: 60DB950EC0A: to=<dbesteves@xinapse.net>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=1.7, delays=0.6/0.06/0.01/1.1, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok, id=03446-01, from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 74BF750EC10)
Jun 15 14:17:32 dps-mail postfix/qmgr[3025]: 60DB950EC0A: removed
Jun 15 14:17:38 dps-mail postfix/smtp[3756]: 74BF750EC10: to=<dbesteves@xinapse.net>, relay=aspmx.l.google.com[209.85.216.60]:25, delay=5.7, delays=0.04/0.01/3.3/2.4, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK 1245046657 34si5842194pxi.3)
Jun 15 14:17:38 dps-mail postfix/qmgr[3025]: 74BF750EC10: removed

here's testing@dec.edu.ph

still I can't resolve the issue on receiving mails coming from the outside.

btw, how can I disable the IPTables that was shipped with iredmail on startup?

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Re: iRedmail questions.

it doesnt even go to /var/log/maillog if i try to send a mail to mydomain from google. neutral

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Re: iRedmail questions.

No error in the log you posted.

how can I disable the IPTables that was shipped with iredmail on startup?

Run command:

# /etc/init.d/iptables stop

If you want do disable it on system startup, run:

# chkconfig --level 345 iptables off

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Re: iRedmail questions.

zhang, is there a way to somehow stop or disable the greylisting? and another thing, ill start the migration for the users.. i need some help.

the current mail server's home directories is like this:
[root@mail Maildir]# pwd
/home/vpopmail/domains/dec.edu.ph/aaestabillo/Maildir
[root@mail Maildir]# ls -la
total 44
drwx------  9 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Feb 19 15:56 .
drwx------  3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Oct 15  2008 ..
drwx------  2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Feb 19 15:56 courierimapkeywords
-rw-r--r--  1 vpopmail vchkpw   36 Feb 19 15:56 courierimapsubscribed
-rw-r--r--  1 vpopmail vchkpw   15 Feb 19 15:56 courierimapuiddb
drwx------  2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Oct 15  2008 cur
drwx------  6 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Feb 19 15:56 .Drafts
drwx------  2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 May 18 16:46 new
drwx------  6 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Feb 19 15:56 .Sent
drwx------  2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 May 18 16:46 tmp
drwx------  6 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Feb 19 15:56 .Trash

lets say ill now migrate this said user to iredmail's format.

what should i do? to preserve the details and all. I mean i still want the users to access their old inbox, sent, drafts etc that was used from qmailtoaster to iredmail's

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Re: iRedmail questions.

syntax-error wrote:

zhang, is there a way to somehow stop or disable the greylisting?

Edit /etc/policyd.conf, change 'GREYLISTING' to 0:

# File: /etc/policyd.conf
GREYLIST=0

Restart policyd service:

# /etc/init.d/policyd restart

# pwd
/home/vpopmail/domains/dec.edu.ph/aaestabillo/Maildir

User's mailbox path is defined in:

  • 'mail_location' setting in /etc/dovecot.conf, and /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf (or /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf).

  • Dovecot queries mailbox location from mysql: vmail.mailbox (column: maildir).

Make sure you know the real path before you migrate it.

lets say ill now migrate this said user to iredmail's format.
what should i do?

iRedMail uses maildir format by default.

Summary of migration:

* Copy user's whole Maildir/ directory to iRedMail server, make sure it's the correct path.
* Set correct owner/group and file permission recursively on Maildir/ directory:

# chown -R vmail:vmail /path/to/new/Maildir/
# chmod -R 0700 /path/to/new/Maildir/

* Log into webmail (or MUA, like thunderbird or whatever you like), check whether you can read the mails you copied in above steps.

That's all.

Maybe i missed something, please correct me.
It's great if you write down the whole migration steps and share it smile

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Re: iRedmail questions.

hey zhang, thanks for the guidelines, another question tho, the current mail server is using courier imap, do i have to convert the to dovecot? iredmail uses dovecot..

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sweet i got it working without even converting it

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Re: iRedmail questions.

Dovecot will ignore files it doesn't used in user's Maildir/, such as:

drwx------  2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Feb 19 15:56 courierimapkeywords
-rw-r--r--  1 vpopmail vchkpw   36 Feb 19 15:56 courierimapsubscribed
-rw-r--r--  1 vpopmail vchkpw   15 Feb 19 15:56 courierimapuiddb

They are courier-imap/pop3 needed. Like courier-imap, dovecot will create several files in user's Maildir too.

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Re: iRedmail questions.

ZhangHuangbin wrote:

Dovecot will ignore files it doesn't used in user's Maildir/, such as:

drwx------  2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Feb 19 15:56 courierimapkeywords
-rw-r--r--  1 vpopmail vchkpw   36 Feb 19 15:56 courierimapsubscribed
-rw-r--r--  1 vpopmail vchkpw   15 Feb 19 15:56 courierimapuiddb

They are courier-imap/pop3 needed. Like courier-imap, dovecot will create several files in user's Maildir too.


I had it working, the migration, now I just have to migrate over 300+ users one by one hehehehe.

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Re: iRedmail questions.

once success migration, hope to tell us your success story

http://www.iredmail.org/forum/forum3-su … ories.html

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Re: iRedmail questions.

I got a question, what should i edit to adjust the default quota via postfix admin from 10mb to 20mb?