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Technical document: Linux Mail Server Howto
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Preamble
Document date and revision
Contact
Package versions
Before you start
WARNING!
Chapter 2 - Introduction
Purpose and scope
Postfix vs. sendmail
Email - a crash course
Chapter 3 - Installing Postfix
Downloading and compiling postfix
Creating postfix user and group
Installing postfix
Sendmail symbolic links
Configuring postfix
Postfix log files
Switching off sendmail
Starting and stopping postfix
Testing postfix
Chapter 4 - Installing authdaemond
Downloading, compiling and installing authdaemond
Starting and stopping authdaemond
Authentication testing
Configuring authdaemond
Chapter 5 - Installing courier-imap
Creating a courier user and group
Downloading, compiling and installing courier-imap
Starting and stopping courier-imap
Configuring courier-imap
Chapter 6 - Accessing mail over IMAP
Creating system user maildir folders
Accessing mails over IMAP with telnet
Setting up and running imapd-ssl
Chapter 7 - Configuring Mozilla Thunderbird
Setting up your account
Connecting over IMAP-SSL
Cached connections and IMAP-IDLE
Chapter 8 - Creating virtual users and domains
Creating a system user to host virtual mailboxes
Configuring postfix to deliver to virtual mailboxes
Configuring authdaemond to authenticate virtual users
Testing virtual user authentication
Accessing virtual user mail via courier-imap
Chapter 9 - Tieing it all together
Stopping sendmail from starting at boot
Starting postfix at boot
Starting authdaemond at boot
Starting courier-imap at boot
Appendix A - An example /etc/aliases file
Appendix B - References
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