hey, Thanxs for another excellent guide, it really helps beginners like myself. just a couple of things though: I descided not to use ispconfig (find doing configuration manually helps me learn linux better) , how do i set up email accounts? are they just system accounts, if yes how do i make them? Also, in the guide you specify server1.example.com in the postfix configuration, in my situation should it just be example.com (what i'm trying to get at will addresses be in the format [email protected] or [email protected] when using the format in question)? What ports need to be forwarded? (80, 993, 995, 443) caffine_fizz
I can't find the original thread now, but here is what I did (thanks, Falko): First you have to tell Postfix to deliver emails to a user's Maildir: postconf -e 'home_mailbox = Maildir/' postconf -e 'mailbox_command =' /etc/init.d/postfix restart Then run postconf -e 'virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtusertable' postconf -e 'mydestination = /etc/postfix/local-host-names' /etc/postfix/local-host-names should contain all domains that you want to accept emails for, e.g.: localhost your.server.name localhost.your.server.name example.com yourdomain.com /etc/postfix/virtusertable looks like this: [email protected] sample_user [email protected] sample_user [email protected] sample_user Emails for [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] will now arrive in the mailbox of sample_user. Everytime you change /etc/postfix/virtusertable you have to run the following command: postmap /etc/postfix/virtusertable Now restart Postfix: /etc/init.d/postfix restart You should specify server1.example.com as the instructions state, then configure your mail client to send out mail with the shorter address if this is what you want ([email protected])
