Linux Mail Server Setup and Howto Guide

RPMforge is a third party RPM repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS. Adding the RPMforge repository will give you access to an extensive library of precompiled binaries. This article describes how to add the RPMforge repository in Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS 5 or 6.

This article will show you how to configure Postfix and Dovecot to handle multiple domains stored in MySQL. Postfix Admin is used to manage the domains, mailboxes and aliases in MySQL. See How to Install Postfix Admin to setup the MySQL database that will be used by Postfix and Dovecot.

Postfix Admin is a web based interface used to manage mailboxes, virtual domains and aliases. This article will show you how to install Postfix Admin to simplify management of mailboxes, domains and aliases.

This guide will show you how to integrate Active Directory/LDAP into Postfix and Dovecot. In this page, you will learn how to enable Postfix to lookup email addresses in LDAP and how to enable Dovecot to authenticate to an LDAP server.

This page will guide you in configuring MailScanner, ClamAV and SpamAssassin to work in Postfix. Before proceeding, please make sure that all of the above components are already installed.

MailScanner is an open source anti-virus and anti-spam filter for email servers. The anti-virus and anti-spam portion is delegated to third party applications. This article describes how to install MailScanner.

To install Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV), we are going to use the precompiled binaries from the EPEL repository.

In Linux, new user accounts automatically receive mail accounts. Here are the steps for adding a new user account in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or 6 and its derivative CentOS 5 or 6.