Linux Mail Server Setup and Howto Guide

This article describes how to synchronize the Active Directory password to Fedora Directory Server using the PassSync utility.

This article describes how to install an SSL certificate in Fedora Directory Server to be able to use encypted SSL connection in synchronization. If you will be synchronizing with an Active Directory server, make sure SSL is enabled. You’ll also need a base-64 encoded SSL certificate from your Active Directory server.

The version of Postfix that comes with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or CentOS 5 does not support MySQL lookups. You can build your own custom Postfix RPM or get a prebuilt RPM from the CentOS Plus repository. You can use the CentOS repository in RHEL since CentOS is binary compatible with RHEL. This article describes how to install Postfix with MySQL lookup table support from the CentOS Plus repository.

Active Directory is a Microsoft Windows Server technology that provides a variety of network services including LDAP-like Directory services, Kerberos based authentication, and DNS based naming service. It also includes a set of graphical tools that makes managing it a cinch. This article describes how to utilize this powerful technology in the Linux environment.

This article describes how to configure Fedora Directory Server to synchronize entries with Active Directory Server.

This article describes how to achieve single sign on with Active Directory using Identity Management for Unix (available in Windows 2003 R2 and above) or Services for Unix 3.5.

Identity Management for UNIX makes it easy to integrate your Active Directory user and group accounts into Unix by extending Active Directory to support attributes needed in Unix. This article describes how to install and use Identity Management for UNIX.

Squid is an open source caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid also has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. This article will show you how to install and configure the Squid Proxy Server in RHEL/CentOS 5.

You can use you Active Directory user accounts for authenticating in Squid. You can also the Active Directory groups to group the access control in Squid. This article describes how to configure Squid to use the Active Directory user accounts for authentication and groups for access control.

This article contains links on how to add mail accounts for some of the common mail clients.