Mark Porthouse Technical FAQ

If you wish users to be able to pick up there email by POP3 access to your mailserver (Mandriva 2006 Free) then you will need to set up a POP3 server.

After installing Postfix and getting it to send and manage emails for you, set up of SMTP AUTH can take place. SMTP AUTH enables domain users to send emails via your machine’s SMTP server without leaving your machine an open relay.
You will need to ensure that the following packages are installed:
libsasl2
cyrus-sasl
libsasl2-plug-anonymous
libsasl2-plug-crammd5
libsasl2-plug-digestmd5
libsasl2-plug-gssapi
libsasl2-plug-plain
libsasl2-plug-sasldb
perl-Authen-SASL
(now, it could be that […]

This set up allows webmail access for multiple domains from one Squirrelmail installation.

If you wish to run jar files on Mandrive you will need to download a Java Runtime Enviroment (jre)

First install Mutt from
Mandrake Control Center>Software
Assuming that you use Maildir and that the mail files are on the local machine for the local, logged in, user.
Once installed you need to ensure that your $MAIL environmental variable is not showing a mailbox address. You can check using
echo $MAIL
if it is something like
var/spool/mail/root
then you will need to […]

First get hold of the latest Blackdown Java Virtual Machine:
ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/java/
Once you have downloaded (possibly ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/java/JDK-1.4.1/i386/01/j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin) then move the file to
/usr/local/bin/
and make it executable, by right clicking on the file, selecting properties, then permissions and putting a tick in ‘is executable’.
Then in a terminal, as root, run:
./j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin
(ensure that the filename is correct to what you downloaded.
This […]

To enable Virtualmin to run on Webmin ensure that:
Postfix:
In /etc/postfixmain.cf you have
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
and that you use the command ‘postfix reload’ after you make the change.
Ensure that webalizer is installed.
Ensure that apache2-mod_ssl is installed so that you can create virtual hosts that will serve web pages from an SSL server.

SquirrelMail can be found here: http://www.squirrelmail.org/
Upack the SquirrelMail archive (perhaps squirrelmail-1.4.5.tar.gz) into the web directory on your webserver/mailserver. This will create a squirrelmail directory which you may wish to rename - perhaps to ‘email’ or something.
These instructions are taken from the SquirrelMail install doc:
- Select a data-dir and attachment dir, outside the webtree (e.g. in […]

SquirrelMail can be found here: http://www.squirrelmail.org/
Upack the SquirrelMail archive (perhaps squirrelmail-1.4.5.tar.gz) into the web directory on your webserver/mailserver. This will create a squirrelmail directory which you may wish to rename - perhaps to ‘email’ or something.
The remaining instructions are taken from the SquirrelMail install doc:
- Select a data-dir and attachment dir, outside the webtree (e.g. […]

Ensure that the Procmail rpm is installed on your system