Comments on: Postfixadmin – setup/install guide for virtual mail users on Postfix

By: Nancy Wise

Nancy Wise — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:15:53 +0000

Thanks for this post, answers a bunch of questions I was having.

By: Random notes from installing postfixadmin 2.3 deb | David Goodwin

Random notes from installing postfixadmin 2.3 deb | David Goodwin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:52:58 +0000

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By: David Goodwin

David Goodwin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:06:23 +0000

Felix – local_transport / local_recipient_maps – they may well be unnecessary; I just ‘do them’. sorry I can’t provide a better answer.

By: David Goodwin

David Goodwin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:05:33 +0000

Aiva – afaik, /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf is the default file postfix uses if you want to do smtpd authentication (i.e. allowing people to relay through your server using their mailbox username/password to identify themselves)

By: Lost applications - openSUSE Forums

Lost applications - openSUSE Forums — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:20:24 +0000

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By: aiva

aiva — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:57:45 +0000

I’m bit confused of this part:

“Create /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf with …”

when and how then this file is readed?
there is no definition of this in postfix config….

By: Felix

Felix — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:55:36 +0000

Why do you setup these two lines?

local_transport = virtual
local_recipient_maps = $virtual_mailbox_maps

They will completely skip local delivery and for example Mailman integration won’t work. What’s the advantage of these two lines?

By: David Goodwin

David Goodwin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:18:42 +0000

miro – Really? I did… news to me!

By: miro

miro — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:16:37 +0000

Lovely! You are the first person that actually mentions how to use Postfixadmin after setup

thanks!

By: eldon

eldon — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:50:37 +0000

looks like i had to change the sasl setup and setup the pam smtp, as follows :
(the sql matches a postfixadmin setup)

/etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf :
pwcheck_method: saslauthd
saslauthd_path: /var/run/saslauthd/mux
log_level: 3
mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN
auxprop_plugin: mysql
## optional ##
allow_plaintext: true
sql_hostnames: 127.0.0.1
sql_user: postfix
sql_passwd: yourdbpass
sql_database: postfix
sql_select: select password from mailbox where username = ‘%u’
## end optional ##

i’m not sure the #optional# statements are required as there are some others in the pam setup, but i found that conf as is. I don’t seem to need those optional statements on my setup.

then create /etc/pam.d/smtp :
auth required pam_mysql.so user=postfix passwd=yourdbpass host=127.0.0.1 db=postfix table=mailbox usercolumn=username passwdcolumn=password crypt=1 md5=1

account sufficient pam_mysql.so user=postfix passwd=yourdbpass host=127.0.0.1 db=postfix table=mailbox usercolumn=username passwdcolumn=password crypt=1 md5=1

you may have to install libpam-mysql to get mysql support in pam.
And as i thought, it seems that /etc/sasl/smtpd.conf is not required on my debian setup.

thx for the tutorial.