Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Debian Squeeze) - Page 4

12 Test Postfix

To see if Postfix is ready for SMTP-AUTH and TLS, run

telnet localhost 25

After you have established the connection to your Postfix mail server type

ehlo localhost

If you see the lines

250-STARTTLS

and

250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN

everything is fine:

root@server1:/usr/local/sbin# telnet localhost 25
 Trying 127.0.0.1...
 Connected to localhost.localdomain.
 Escape character is '^]'.
 220 server1.example.com ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)
 ehlo localhost
 250-server1.example.com
 250-PIPELINING
 250-SIZE 10240000
 250-VRFY
 250-ETRN
 250-STARTTLS
 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
 250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
 250-8BITMIME
 250 DSN
 quit
 221 2.0.0 Bye
 Connection closed by foreign host.
 root@server1:/usr/local/sbin#

Type

quit

to return to the system shell.

13 Populate The Database And Test

To populate the database you can use the MySQL shell:

mysql -u root -p

USE mail;

At least you have to create entries in the tables domains and users:

INSERT INTO `domains` (`domain`) VALUES ('example.com');
 INSERT INTO `users` (`email`, `password`, `quota`) VALUES ('[email protected]', ENCRYPT('secret'), 10485760);

(Please take care that you use the ENCRYPT syntax in the second INSERT statement in order to encrypt the password!)

If you want to make entries in the other two tables, that would look like this:

INSERT INTO `forwardings` (`source`, `destination`) VALUES ('[email protected]', '[email protected]');
 INSERT INTO `transport` (`domain`, `transport`) VALUES ('example.com', 'smtp:mail.example.com');

To leave the MySQL shell, type

quit;

For most people it is easier if they have a graphical front-end to MySQL; therefore you can also use phpMyAdmin (in this example under http://192.168.0.100/phpmyadmin/ or http://server1.example.com/phpmyadmin/) to administrate the mail database. Again, when you create a user, go sure that you use the ENCRYPT function to encrypt the password:

I do not think I have to explain the domains and users table further.

The forwardings table can have entries like the following:

The transport table can have entries like these:

See

man transport

for more details.

Please keep in mind that the order of entries in the transport table is important! The entries will be followed from the top to the bottom.

Important: Postfix uses a caching mechanism for the transports, therefore it might take a while until you changes in the transport table take effect. If you want them to take effect immediately, run

postfix reload

after you have made your changes in the transport table.

14 Send A Welcome Email For Creating Maildir

When you create a new email account and try to fetch emails from it (with POP3/IMAP) you will probably get error messages saying that the Maildir doesn't exist. The Maildir is created automatically when the first email arrives for the new account. Therefore it's a good idea to send a welcome email to a new account.

First, we install the mailx package:

apt-get install mailutils

To send a welcome email to [email protected], we do this:

mailx [email protected]

You will be prompted for the subject. Type in the subject (e.g. Welcome), then press ENTER, and in the next line type your message. When the message is finished, press ENTER again so that you are in a new line, then press CTRL+D; if you don't want to cc the mail, press ENTER again:

root@server1:/usr/local/sbin# mailx [email protected]
Subject: Welcome <-- ENTER
Welcome! Have fun with your new mail account. <-- ENTER
<-- CTRL+D
Cc: <-- ENTER
root@server1:/usr/local/sbin#