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The document provides instructions for installing and configuring a full-featured mail server stack including Qmail, Vpopmail, EZmlm, Autoresponder, Vqadmin, Maildrop, Qmailadmin, Courier-imap/imaps with Courierpassd. The 10 part process involves installing prerequisites, building and configuring each component, and finalizing the Qmail configuration. When completed, the mail server will support virtual domains with web-based administration interfaces for managing accounts, aliases, quotas and more.

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The document provides instructions for installing and configuring a full-featured mail server stack including Qmail, Vpopmail, EZmlm, Autoresponder, Vqadmin, Maildrop, Qmailadmin, Courier-imap/imaps with Courierpassd. The 10 part process involves installing prerequisites, building and configuring each component, and finalizing the Qmail configuration. When completed, the mail server will support virtual domains with web-based administration interfaces for managing accounts, aliases, quotas and more.

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Part 2-Installing Qmail itself

Pre-installation check list:


setenforce 0 [To stop Firewall]
iptables -F [To stop Firewall]
service iptables save
Ensure following package is installed
1) gcc
2) openssl
3) openssl-devel
4) db4-devel
5) expect
6) perl-suidperl
stop postfix,dovecot service
mkdir /downloads [For downloading qmail package]
cd /downloads
tar –xzvf ~/qmailrocks.tar.gz

# Following script create necessary user and groups as well as all the needed directories
#Permissions and ownership settings needed for the installation of qmail, ucspi-tcp and daemontools

/downloads/qmailrocks/scripts/install/qmr_install_linux-s1.script
#The following patch will build all sorts of cool functionality directly into qmail before install it.
/downloads/qmailrocks/scripts/util/qmail_big_patches.script
#For Build/install qmail
cd /usr/src/qmail/qmail-1.03
make man && make setup check
./config-fast hostname
make cert
chown -R vpopmail:qmail /var/qmail/control/clientcert.pem /var/qmail/control/servercert.pem
cd /usr/src/qmail/ucspi-tcp-0.88
patch < /downloads/qmailrocks/patches/ucspi-tcp-0.88.errno.patch
make && make setup check
cd /package/admin/daemontools-0.76
cd /package/admin/daemontools-0.76/src
patch < /downloads/qmailrocks/patches/daemontools-0.76.errno.patch
cd /package/admin/daemontools-0.76
package/install

Part 3 – Ezmlm

EZmlm is a nice mailing list add-on to Qmail.


cd /downloads/qmailrocks/
tar zxvf ezmlm-0.53-idx-0.41.tar.gz
cd ezmlm-0.53-idx-0.41
make && make setup
Part 4 – Autoresponder

It allows us to set up autoresponders for mailboxes and so forth.


cd /downloads/qmailrocks
tar zxvf autorespond-2.0.5.tar.gz
cd autorespond-2.0.5
make && make install
Part 5 – Vpopmail
Vpopmail is one of the major components of this installation. Vpopmail allows us to do virtual domain
mail hosting.
cd /downloads/qmailrocks
tar zxvf vpopmail-5.4.13.tar.gz
cd vpopmail-5.4.13
./configure --enable-logging=p
make && make install-strip

Part 6 - Vqadmin

Vqadmin is simply a nice web based interface that will let us manage Vpopmail. Through the interface we
can
create new domains, new users, net quotas, enable services and much more.

cd /downloads/qmailrocks
tar zxvf vqadmin-2.3.6.tar.gz
cd vqadmin-2.3.6
cp ../vpopmain/config.sub .
# ./configure --enable-cgibindir=/path/to/your/cgi-bin --enable-htmldir=/path/to/your/html/directory
./configure --enable-cgibindir=/var/www/cgi-bin --enable-htmldir=/var/www/html
make && make install-strip
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin/vqadmin">
deny from all
Options ExecCGI
AllowOverride AuthConfig
Order deny,allow
</Directory>

cd /var/www/cgi-bin/vqadmin

vi .htaccess
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /etc/htpasswd
AuthName vQadmin
require valid-user
satisfy any

chown apache .htaccess


chmod 644 .htaccess
htpasswd -c /etc/htpasswd admin
/etc/init.d/httpd start
http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/vqadmin/vqadmin.cgi

Part 7- Maildrop

Maildrop is a mail filtering agent which can be used to filter messages as they arrive on the server.

cd /downloads/qmailrocks
tar zxvf maildrop-1.6.3.tar.gz
cd maildrop-1.6.3
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --exec-prefix=/usr/local --enable-maildrop-uid=root
--enable-maildrop-gid=vchkpw --enable-maildirquota
make && make install-strip && make install-man

Part 8 – Qmailadmin

Qmailadmin is going to provide us with a nice web based interface for administering mail accounts. From
Qmailadmin we can create mailboxes, aliases, fowards, mailing lists.

cd /downloads/qmailrocks
tar zxvf qmailadmin-1.2.9.tar.gz
cd qmailadmin-1.2.9
#./configure --enable-cgibindir=/path/to/your/cgi-bin --enable-htmldir=/path/to/your/html/directory
./configure --enable-cgibindir=/var/www/cgi-bin --enable-htmldir=/var/www/html
make && make install-strip
# Follow the link to access Qmail Admin
http://www.yourdomain/cgi-bin/qmailadmin

Part 9 - Finalizing Qmail

/downloads/qmailrocks/scripts/finalize/linux/finalize_linux.script
vi /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d/run
Find "mail.example.com" and change it to your server's hostname. For example: mail.mydomain.com.
vi /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run
Find "mail.example.com" and change it to your server's hostname. For example: mail.mydomain.com
Change the soft limit of the file
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 90000000
echo '127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""' >> /etc/tcp.smtp
qmailctl cdb
# For start qmail
svscanboot &

Part 10 - Installing Courier-imap/imaps with Courierpassd

#Courier-imap is the preferred IMAP server to install.


#Courier IMAP works with Vpopmail and virtual domains.
#The Courier-authlib package to enable proper authentication through courier-imap.
cd /downloads/qmailrocks/
tar jxvf courier-authlib-0.55.tar.bz2
cd courier-authlib-0.55
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --exec-prefix=/usr/local --with-authvchkpw --without-authldap --without-
authmysql --disable-root-check --with-ssl --with-authchangepwdir=/usr/local/libexec/authlib --with-
redhat
make && make check
make install-strip && make install-configure
#Now we will add a startup command for authedaemond to the /etc/rc.local file to ensure startup on boot.
vi /etc/rc.local
/usr/local/sbin/authdaemond start
# See /var/log/maillog,if you get error then follow the following step
vi /etc/ld.so.conf
/usr/local/lib
ldconfig
cd /downloads/qmailrocks/
tar jxvf courier-imap-4.0.2.tar.bz2
adduser bsmith
chown -R bsmith:wheel courier-imap-4.0.2
cd /downloads/qmailrocks/courier-imap-4.0.2
su bsmith
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --exec-prefix=/usr/local --with-authvchkpw --without-authldap --without-
authmysql --disable-root-check --with-ssl --with-authchangepwdir=/usr/local/libexec/authlib --with-
redhat
make && make check
exit
make install-strip && make install-configure
/usr/local/sbin/mkimapdcert
vi /usr/local/etc/imapd.cnf
change [email protected] an administrative email address

vi /usr/local/etc/imapd
IMAPDSTART=YES
vi /usr/local/etc/imapd-ssl
IMAPDSSLSTART=YES
TLS_CERTFILE=/usr/local/share/imapd.pem

vi /usr/local/etc/authlib/authdaemonrc
#Go to 27 line
#Comment this line and write the following line
authmodulelist="authvchkpw"
cp /usr/local/libexec/imapd.rc /etc/rc.d/init.d/imap
cp /usr/local/libexec/imapd-ssl.rc /etc/rc.d/init.d/imaps
/usr/local/sbin/authdaemond start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/imap start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/imaps start

#Courierpassd is going allow us to enable your mail users to change their own mail passwords via the
Squirrelmail interface.
yum install xinetd
cd /downloads/qmailrocks
tar zxvf courierpassd-1.1.0-RC1.tar.gz
cd courierpassd-1.1.0-RC1
./configure
make && make install
cd /etc/xinetd.d
vi courierpassd
service courierpassd
{
port = 106
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
user = root
server = /usr/local/sbin/courierpassd
server_args = -s imap
wait = no
only_from = 127.0.0.1
instances = 4
disable = no
}

vi /etc/services
courierpassd 106/tcp #for /etc/xinetd.d/courierpassd
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart

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