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    This document provides instructions for setting up the Postfix mail system on a Linux system to send and receive email via a Microsoft Exchange server. It describes configuring Postfix by editing the main.cf file to set parameters like the domain, hostname, and relay host. It also covers installing SASL for authentication, setting up sender and recipient mapping files, and using fetchmail to retrieve email from the Exchange server.

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    Setting up the Postfix mail system http://www.soc.napier.ac.uk/~peter/linux/postfix.

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    Setting up the Postfix mail system


    Peter Ross

    These notes describe how to set up the Postfix mail system on your Linux box
    so that you can send out emails via a Napier University Microsoft Exchange
    server. The notes assume that you are using Linux Mandrake 10.0, although
    they very probably apply to any other Linux system that has Postfix too.

    See here if you want some ideas of why you should even bother.

    What is Postfix? It is a mail delivery agent, not a program for actually letting
    you read and reply to your emails. The old-timer of such mail delivery agents is
    sendmail, which is notoriously hard to configure correctly for any but the
    simplest of set-ups. Postfix is a more modern replacement that is very much
    easier to configure.

    How do you know if you've got it installed? One simple way is to list all the
    installed packages with the command rpm -qa and extract from that list any
    occurrence of the string "postfix", in a case-independent way:

    % rpm -qa | grep -i postfix

    How do you know if it's active? Check whether it gets started at boot time, by
    using one of the standard tools such as the Mandrake Control Centre (alias
    /usr/X11R6/bin/DrakConf) to examine/change which services are running and
    whether they are to be started at boot time.

    How do you configure it? You need to edit the file /etc/postfix/main.cf (as
    root) as follows:

    set mydomain = napier.ac.uk although this is actually the effective


    default
    set myorigin = $myhostname so that a message composed by local user
    `fred will have a header which says it comes from
    fred@pc162119.napier.ac.uk (or whatever your PC's hostname is)
    set mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain so that
    messages to another user on your own machine (eg, warning messages
    generated by some other program to `root' (rather than, eg,
    `root@mit.edu') or to `root@localhost.napier.ac.uk' get delivered without
    the message ever leaving your machine.
    set relayhost = ex-server1.napier.ac.uk so that messages which are not
    to be delivered to another user on your machine (probably nearly all
    messages will be to outsiders) are to be passed to an Exchange server; it

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    will then take care of delivery to wherever. (Note June 19 2004:


    smtp.napier.ac.uk should handle outgoing mail, even from external
    machines, but seems to be rejecting connections).
    the Exchange server will not accept delivery requests from anyone
    anywhere; you have to be authorised, and the authorisation procedure
    involves Postfix telling the Exchange server your login name (eg cs999)
    and corresponding password. To get Postfix to do this, insert
    smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
    smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
    smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname
    smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd

    The second of these tells Postfix not to try anonymous login with the
    Exchange server. The fourth line tells it where to look up the appropriate
    login/password info. You need to create the file /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
    to contain, eg, the single line:
    ex-server1.napier.ac.uk cs999:steamer6

    assuming steamer6 is the relevant password for NAPIER-MAIL\cs999.


    Then you have to get this plaintext information converted into database
    format; in the directory /etc/postfix, as root, run the command:
    # postmap sasl_passwd

    and it will create the file sasl_passwd.db. Note that SASL is actually
    something distinct from Postfix -- SASL stands for Simple Authentication
    and Security Layer and is a separate software library designed to manage
    various possible authentication dialogues for connection-based
    communication protocols such as TCP/IP. The SASL software may or may
    not be already installed on our system, see below.
    finally, somewhere, add these two lines:
    sender_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_canonical
    recipient_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/recipient_canonical

    These files will contain details for rewriting certain outbound and inbound
    email addresses, see below.

    This should be all you need to do to /etc/postfix/main.cf (but do read the rest
    and see if there is anything else you wan to tweak). But there is more still to
    do!

    Check that you have SASL installed:


    % rpm -qa | grep -i sasl

    You will need at least these (the version numbers may vary):

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    libsasl2-2.1.15-10mdk
    libsasl2-plug-login-2.1.15-10mdk

    but if you want to cope with all the standard sorts of dialogue, for example
    because you also want to send mail via your favourite external ISP, then you
    would also need:
    libsasl2-plug-anonymous-2.1.15-10mdk
    libsasl2-plug-plain-2.1.15-10mdk
    libsasl2-plug-crammd5-2.1.15-10mdk
    libsasl2-plug-srp-2.1.15-10mdk
    libsasl2-plug-digestmd5-2.1.15-10mdk
    libsasl2-plug-otp-2.1.15-10mdk
    libsasl2-plug-gssapi-2.1.15-10mdk
    libsasl2-plug-sasldb-2.1.15-10mdk
    libsasl2-plug-ntlm-2.1.15-10mdk

    To find these RPMs look at http://rpmfind.net and search for libsasl2-plug

    Create the file /etc/postfix/sender_canonical to contain something like these


    two lines, or whatever:

    peter@pc162119.napier.ac.uk P.Ross@napier.ac.uk
    peter@localhost.napier.ac.uk P.Ross@napier.ac.uk

    This means that a message from `peter', originally rewritten to be from


    'peter@pc162119.napier.ac.uk' thanks to the myorigin variable mentioned
    above, will then be rewritten to be from P.Ross@napier.ac.uk. That means that
    when somebody replies, the reply will go to the Exchange server and will be
    stored there ... until it gets collected, see below. Also create the file
    /etc/postfix/recipient_canonical to contain something like
    peter@pc16219.napier.ac.uk peter
    peter@napier.ac.uk peter
    peter@localhost.napier.ac.uk peter
    P.Ross@napier.ac.uk peter
    P.Ross peter

    This lot is essentially a belt-and-braces measure. If, at some stage in the future,
    you adjust the mail setup to also accept messages from external hosts, then
    inbound messages addressed to any of these will be delivered to peter locally.
    And, of course, you need to get these text files turned into database format by
    these commands in the directory /etc/postfix:
    # postmap sender_canonical
    # postmap recipient_canonical

    Finally, you need to get Postfix to notice all these changes you have made. Get
    it to re-read its configuration information by the command:
    # postfix reload

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    and you should now be able to send email to anyone anywhere, and their
    replies will come back to the Exchange server and await your pleasure there.

    Of course, you may not want to use Outlook on a Windows box to read your
    email on the Exchange server, you may prefer to collect it and have it delivered
    to you on your Linux box. The simplest way to do this is to use the fetchmail
    program. You will need a $HOME/.fetchmailrc file that contains something like
    this:

    poll imap.napier.ac.uk protocol IMAP auth password


    user "NAPIER-MAIL\\cs999\\P.Ross" with password "steamer6" is "peter" here

    This does not have to be all on one line. You can get fetchmail to run every few
    minutes -- see the man page, or use one of the standard command-scheduling
    tools such as at and cron.

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