Linux Mail Server Setup and Howto Guide

This article describes how to configure Postfix to blindly accept all emails, meaning receive email without checking the recipient. This setup is useful as a backup or archive mail destination.

This article will show you how to copy incoming mail to another mail server using the blind carbon copy (BCC) feature in Postfix. This capability is useful for backup, archive or disaster recovery purposes.

All the information you can store in a Network Information Service (NIS) can also be stored in an LDAP server. This article describes how to use the 389 Directory Server to function as a Network Information Service by showing how to store the list of service as an example.

Postfix can be configured to act as a backup mail server. A backup MX server accepts mail if the primary mail server goes down and will forward all mails in its queue if the primary mail server goes back online.

Using email is very easy, but setting up your own email server is not. This article describes how email works to give you an introduction on the various components needed to implement your own mail server.

An SSL connection to Active Directory is required in order to update a user’s password using LDAP. This article describes how to configure and test 389 Directory Server to synchronize with an Active Directory Server via an SSL LDAP connection.

Services in Linux like cron and kerberos relies on an accurate and synchronized clock. This article describes how to synchronize the system clock with an NTP server.

BIND is an open-source software that implements the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols for the Internet. The name BIND stands for “Berkeley Internet Name Domain”. This article describes how to install and configure BIND in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or CentOS 5.

JXplorer is a standards compliant general purpose open source ldap browser that can be used to read and search any ldap directory, or any X500 directory with an ldap interface. This article describes to how install the JXplorer open source ldap browser.