command line idiot » dovecot http://www.commandlineidiot.com/blog one man's dawning realization that linux is waaaaay smarter than he is Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:14:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 apt-get remove dovecot spamassassin postfix http://www.commandlineidiot.com/blog/2007/apt-get-remove-dovecot-spamassassin-postfix/ http://www.commandlineidiot.com/blog/2007/apt-get-remove-dovecot-spamassassin-postfix/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:36:32 +0000 command line idiot http://www.commandlineidiot.com/blog/2007/apt-get-remove-dovecot-spamassassin-postfix/ Sweet! Google Apps / Gmail just got IMAP. There goes my final reason for trying to figure out email server configuration on my own. Now I can focus on the things that really matter – porting NES classic games to the ncurses interfaces. You haven’t played zelda until you’ve played ASCII graphics zelda!

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Christopher Haas has written what might be the best tutorial I’ve ever run across for linux. It’s accurate, complete, breaks things down into manageable steps, and explains what you’re doing while you do it. It also contains several “check” steps, where it shows you how to check your system logs to see if the previous steps went as planned.

This is what a tutorial should be!

Howto: ISP-style Email Server with Debian-Etch and Postfix 2.3

If you’re trying to get email up and running on your debian VPS, this is the place to start. It shows how to use postfix and dovecot, with secure login, spam and virus checkers. Everything you need for POP or IMAP.

Take note of the warning up front about the proper naming scheme for your host. Almost every VPS image that I’ve run across uses a default naming in /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname that is incorrect for proper configuration of postfix (or even apache!). This article explains why and what to do about it:

Naming Issues with Linux and xBSD

Happy installing of email!

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