Linux Mail Server Setup and Howto Guide

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.

389 Directory Server, formerly called the Fedora Directory Server, is an enterprise-class open source LDAP server for Linux. 389 Directory Server is very mature and very powerful, below are some of its features.

389 Directory Server have the capability to synchronize with Active Directory. But this capability is not perfect. I’ll discuss below the problems you may encounter when using the synchronization feature.

This article is describes how to use the plug-ins installed in 389 Directory Server. We will use the Distributed Numeric Assignment plug-in, a plug-in that automatically assigns unique uid numbers to new user entries as they are created, as an example.

This article is a very basic guide in using the 389 Management Console to manage the 389 Directory Server.

This article describes how to synchronize the Active Directory password to 389 Directory Server using the PassSync utility.

This article describes how to install an SSL certificate in 389 Directory Server to be able to use encypted SSL connection during 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 the 389 Directory Server to synchronize entries with an Active Directory Server.