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	~~See~~ [[Mail Server]]		For the mail server, see [[Mail Server]]

			For postfix expression evaluation programming tips, see [[Postfix Expressions]]


	{{Programs}}		{{Programs}}

Admin at 16:33, 28 May 2011

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			{{Programs}}
	~~[[Category:Computers]]~~
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-Postfix ([[wikipedia:Postfix (software)]]) is a mail agent used to send and receive email.  I use it to field mail coming from and going to addresses with my web site's domain name.
+See [[Mail Server]]
-I cheated with Postfix - I used aptitude to install Postfix.  If you want to build it from source, go for it, but I can't help you much.
+[[Category:Computers]]
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Admin at 07:21, 20 October 2010

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	Postfix (~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postfix_%28software%29~~) is a mail agent used to send and receive email. I use it to field mail coming from and going to addresses with my web site's domain name.		Postfix ([[wikipedia:Postfix (software)]]) is a mail agent used to send and receive email. I use it to field mail coming from and going to addresses with my web site's domain name.

	= Installing =		= Installing =

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	When you install it from a package manager, the configuration file ends up in <code>/etc/postfix/main.cf</code> - so go there to set your Postfix configuration.		When you install it from a package manager, the configuration file ends up in <code>/etc/postfix/main.cf</code> - so go there to set your Postfix configuration.

			Following http://www.mysql-apache-php.com/#mailserver I then installed Dovecot, a POP3/IMAP server. It uses Postfix to work properly. I installed it by running

			<syntaxhighlight>
			$ apt-get install dovecot-common
			</syntaxhighlight>

			and made changes following the above website. The configuration file is in <code>/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf</code>. It creates a user dovecot in the group mail.


			i dovecot-common - secure mail server that supports mbox and mail
			p dovecot-dev - header files for the dovecot mail server
			p dovecot-imapd - secure IMAP server that supports mbox and mail
			p dovecot-pop3d - secure POP3 server that supports mbox and mail


			/etc/defaults/saslauthd
			set START=no to START=yes





	= MediaWiki with Postfix =		= MediaWiki with Postfix =

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Postfix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postfix_%28software%29) is a mail agent used to send and receive email. I use it to field mail coming from and going to addresses with my web site's domain name.

= Installing =

== Configuring ==

I cheated with Postfix - I used aptitude to install Postfix. If you want to build it from source, go for it, but I can't help you much.

When you install it from a package manager, the configuration file ends up in <code>/etc/postfix/main.cf</code> - so go there to set your Postfix configuration.

= MediaWiki with Postfix =

The main reason for getting Postfix set up was so that I could give MediaWiki email capabilities. The chain of software looks like this:

MediaWiki --> PHP --> Postfix

So first I had to make sure Postfix and PHP could communicate properly. I edited my PHP.ini file (see also [[PHP]]), and put the following SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smtp) information there:

'''php.ini'''

<syntaxhighlight lang="ini">
SMTP=localhost
smtp_port=25
</syntaxhighlight>

Port 25 is the default SMTP port. Next, I had to install a PEAR module (PEAR adds functionality to PHP) to deal with SMTP stuff. I actually installed 4 PEAR modules:

<syntaxhighlight>
$ pear install Net_Socket
$ pear install Auth_SASL
$ pear install Net_SMTP
$ pear install Mail
</syntaxhighlight>

This will install some PHP files to <code>/path/to/php/lib/php</code>. If you look there, you'll see a PHP file and a directory both named <code>Mail</code>.