Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Mail server (using dovecot)

Finally, for a long time i'm not posting in my blog. Now i will make tutorial about mail server. If you see my old post, you can see i have make tutorial about mail server too ..., so what's different ?. In this tutorial i'm using dovecot for imap and pop3, roundcube v 0.9 (new) and non linux account.
well let's begin .. !!!

  • install linux ubuntu server version (i'm using ubuntu 12.04 LTS)
  • install postfix and mailutils : apt-get install postfix mailutils
  •   configure postfix
  • open file /etc/postfix/main.cf, edit to like this
  • restart postfix : /etc/init.d/postfix restart
  • test postfix configuration
  • create virtual mailbox group and virtual mailbox owner
  • add to /etc/postfix/main.cf
  • create new file:  /etc/postfix/vhosts (for your domain), i'm using rizal.net and ubuntu.com
  • create new file:  /etc/postfix/vmaps. To make an alias, map to same folder as another user.
  • convert vmaps into hash file by running : postmap /etc/postfix/vmaps
  • test send mail with postfix
  • install dovecot : apt-get install dovecot-common dovecot-imapd dovecot pop3d
  • configure dovecot, backup your dovecot default configuration : mv /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
  • create new file for dovecot configuration : nano /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
  • for reduce errors will be better if we using ftp server and then you can upload this file to your server. Download dovecot.conf file here
  • if you have upload dovecot.conf to your server, next step  you must copy dovecot.conf to /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
  • now i will make scripts for add and delete dovecot user, i hope you install ftp server, because that's really helpful
  • download script for add user here, and then upload with ftp server to your server, copy to /usr/local/sbin/
  • make file executable : chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/adddovecotuser
  • if you get error like this : /bin/sh^M bad interprenter, try this for fix it : perl -i -pe 'y|\r||d' /usr/local/sbin/adddovecotuser
  • add user like this (example) : adddovecotuser nabilah@rizal.net, and then press enter you will be required fill a password
  • download script for delete user here, and then upload and copy to : /usr/local/sbin/
  • make file executable : chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/deldovecotuser
  • if you get error like this : /bin/sh^M bad interprenter, try this for fix it : perl -i -pe 'y|\r||d' /usr/local/sbin/deldovecotuser
  • for delete user like this : deldovecotuser nabilah@rizal.net
  • restart postfix and dovecot service
  • now i will test the configuration
  • install clamav for filtering your email from virus : apt-get install clamav-daemon clamav clamsmtp
  • and then do this for completing clamav
  • now you can run clamav
  •  add to main.cf : nano /etc/postfix/main.cf
  • add to master.cf : nano /etc/postfix/master.cf
  • restart postfix : service postfix restart
  • restart dovecot: service dovecot restart
  • restart clamav: service clamav-daemon restart
  • now i will test clamav
  • install mutt : apt-get install mutt ( for attach file from command line)
  • download eicar_com.zip using wget
  • for attach eicar_com.zip do like this : mutt nabilah@rizal.net -a eicar_com.zip -s "<virus>"
  • if you finish, press enter until you see like this ..., and then press "Y" for send email
  • for check the clamav : tail /var/log/mail.log, you can see "Virus detected", and the message will be deleted
  • next step i will install roundcube 0.9 for webmail, but before install roundcube you must install lamp server : apt-get install lamp-server^
  • if you have finished install lamp server, configure mysql to like this :
  • download roundcube 0.9 from here, download complete package, and then upload to your server again with ftp and copy to /var/www
  • extrack roundcube : tar -xzvf roundcubemail-0.9.5.tar.gz
  • rename roundcubemail-0.9.5 to webmail : mv /var/www/roundcubemail-0.9.2 /var/www/webmail
  • change directory to /var/www/webmail : cd /var/www/webmail
  • change the owner for logs and temp
  • logs : chown -R www-data.www-data logs/
  • temp : chown -R www-data.www-data temp/
  • import roundcube database to mysql : mysql -u root -p roundcube < /var/www/webmail/SQL/mysql.initial.sql
  • edit file /etc/apache2/sites-available/default to like this
  • edit file /etc/apache2/httpd.conf to like this 
  • restart apache : service apache2 restart
  • go to client, open a browser and then go to roundcube installter
  • you can see there are some that not ok, for fix it do this : apt-get install php5-mcrypt php5-intl. Edit file /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and fink "date.timezone" like this :
  •  restart you apache2 and refresh you browser
  •  click continue, edit database and imap setting to like this
  • edit smpt setting and display settings to like this
  • click create config, download main.inc.php and db.inc, upload to your server and then copy to /var/www/webmail/config
  • change the owner 
    • chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www/webmail/config/main.inc.php
    • chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www/webmail/config/db.inc.php
  •  restart apache2
  • and then click continue, if you have error like this 
  • back to mysql and do this :
    • GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON roundcube.* TO 'rizal'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword' WITH GRANT OPTION;
    • flush privileges;
    • quit on mysql and restart apache and refresh a browser
  • delete installer page
  • finish ... ^o ^
 

i am sorry about my English, i just want improve my English and if you have question contact me on  
  • email : rizalubuntuuser@gmail.com
  • facebook (you can see on this blog hehehe) but before ask please add me on facebook 
 reference : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostfixVirtualMailBoxClamSmtpHowto#Install_Dovecot_IMAP.2BAC8-POP3_server

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