Re: [webmin-l] Postfix-Configuration for 'road-warriors'

[Martin M. <mm...@me...>]

Hi Dieter,

it's always nice to hear from you :-)

Am Donnerstag, 15. April 2004 00:20 schrieb Dieter H=FCrten:

> can anybody shed some light on me how to configure Postfix to accept
> delivery for 'foreign' domains??? (Every help is welcome! Even RTFM -->
> 1. ...  2. ... 3. ...)

Ok, as you are begging for it ;-)
RTFM - Now !


But now back to topics ...

> - 1 Server; SuSE9.0; Webmin; Virtualmin; BIND9.x; MySQL; Postfix;
> Courier-IMAP; ... - ~70 domains to setup with about ~300+ users
> - Webmin/Virtualmin are working (like always...)
> - DNS is working (TNX Jamie!!)
> - MySQL (seems to be) working -- I'll have to check it later...
> - Postfix/Courier-IMAP is working as it should (for incoming mails...)

So far I see no problem with this. Except SuSE-Linux, but that's another=20
point and offtopic in this thread and on this list as well.

> Problem is:
> - some users are sending their mails _directly_ (*@t-online.de /
> *.isp.tld / ...) - some users (have to / will ?) use *our* server for
> relaying

In general there's no problem in setting up postfix to be smtp-auth-ready i=
n=20
general. Good point seems to me, that SuSE has a nice HOWTO on their pages=
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according to SMTP-AUTH on postfix either way.

A good start would be:
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/de/html/fhassel_slox_saslonly.html

I cannot be more of help, because I generally use sendmail ;-)

[...]

> - Virtualmin is (only?) creating 'system-accounts', not any sort of *SQL
>    (correct if I'm wrong)

Jupp, this is false ...

Virtualmin Virtual Servers
	-> Module Config
	-> MySQL setup and configuration enabled?
		-> Yes

Means: If a Virtual Server is created a MySQL-DB will be created with the=20
name of the domain you setup. Username and Password to connect to the=20
MySQL-DB is the Username/Password-Pair from the main Webmin-User who is=20
responsible for this contact.

Just to be clear this pair comes from

Virtualmin Virtual Servers
	-> Add a new virtual server
		-> Domain name
		-> Unix username
		-> Unix user's password

> - nor is Virtualmin creating additionals 'sender-X-can-relay-to-world'
> files or databases

What does that mean? Is this postfix-related?

> Question(s):
> - did I overlook some 'basic'-configurations ?

see above

> - how can we configure POSTFIX to authenticate allowed senders against
> the (by Virtualmin) created 'system-accounts' ?

see above

> - is anyone using POSTFIX with SMTP-auth against /etc/passwd |
> /etc/shadow ? - is anyone willing to share the secrets with me on how to
> make it work ?

Surely, but ... see my sendmail-note above ;-)

hth

Martin
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