Email Server using Postfix, Dovecot, Squirrelmail, Spamassassin, ClamAV and Amavisd

[ilja]

Originally Posted by StickyC

I tried the first time on a CentOS box and spent a good hour chasing down dependancies based on that OS. I'm trying it again with a real FC3 setup and getting the same error. Is there an easier way to get ClamAV installed? Is there a specific place I should be pulling the RPM from?
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http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
yum install clamav
should do it.

[StickyC]

Originally Posted by ilja

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
yum install clamav
should do it.

Tried that one early on:

# yum install clamav
Setting up Install Process
Setting up Repos
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00     
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00     
Reading repository metadata in from local files
base      : ################################################## 2622/2622
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 349 kB    01:02     
MD Read   : ################################################## 889/889
updates-re: ################################################## 889/889
No Match for argument: clamav
Nothing to do

Got this even with the alternate yum.conf from the FAQ.

Is there some other YUM repository setup I should be using besides the defaults found in /etc/yum.repos.d/ or the FAQ file?

-rw-r--r--   1 root root   233 Nov  1  2004 fedora-devel.repo
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   244 Nov  1  2004 fedora.repo
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   280 Nov  1  2004 fedora-updates.repo
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   282 Nov  1  2004 fedora-updates-testing.repo

[ilja]

yeah, fedora extras has it. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras_2fUsingExtras

[StickyC]

Originally Posted by ilja

yeah, fedora extras has it. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras_2fUsingExtras

Bingo! That seems to have fixed things - thanks!

[StickyC]

Okay, running into a few more issues. I was actually able to install most of the extra packages in step 9 using yum except for perl-BerkeleyDB and amavisd-new (which I dont understand why, since I was able to download it from the Dag repository via http).

I was completely unable to find the listed version of amavisd-new, so I grabbed the latest (amavisd-new-2.3.1-1.1.fc3.rf.i386). However, starting it as a service barfs with a "Convert::UUlib version 1.05 required--this is only version 1.03 at (eval 41) line 17.". Seems the most recent version yum update grabs is 1.03, so I had to grab perl-convert-UUlib 1.05 manually (again from Dag). Why the RPM didn't catch the dependancy, I dunno. In any case, that seemed to fix things.

AmavisD has some other dependancies I ran into that I didn't see in the original post: unarj, ripole, and unrar. All satisfied by hand (again, from Dag).

I'm curious about the deviations between my setup steps/hurdles and those of the original poster and most of the followups (who've not posted about having similar issues). Since I've been following the steps pretty tightly, are there some early on packages/starting configurations that are being missed? For completeness sake (since this thread is one of the first that comes up in a google search for email/fedora howtos), I'd like to see as many of the stumbling blocks documented as possible for the next guy.

[dweeb]

Hi,

I am new to linux and am setting up a mail server. I have followed this excellent tutorial but have ground to a halt at step 7.

I am using Outlook and have entered the relevant server details. When I click the test account settings all everything is fine apart from "send test email". I get an error: unable to connect to the outgoing mail server (SMTP).

I have gone over steps 1-6 again to see if I have missed anything.

I have turned off the firewall and still can't send email

Any suggestions welcome!

Thanks

Darren.

[sssssm]

Darren,

Check you main.cf file. Make sure you have appropriate settings for either myhostname or mydomain. I had the same problem until I set the myhostname=yourdomain.com
that did the trick for me. I think you can also set mydomain=yourdomain.com and it will work as well. 'yourdomain.com' is your the domain you have registered and own.

[dweeb]

Hi sssssm,

Thanks for the reply .

The server is sat on the internal network and can't see the outside world. The hostname is lnx-svr-01. I haven't set a domain name anywhere! Can I still set up the email to work internally?

Thanks again

Darren.

[sssssm]

Sorry for long delay in replies Darren. if you are using it internally you can set hostname to localhost and address each of your users with 'user@localhost'.I think setting your hostname to your server's ip address or the localhost address '127.0.0.1'. I hope this helps.

[Cajun]

Thanks for the excellent writeup. I'm running this configuration on FC3. I am NOT getting the Spamassassin headers in my 'ham' messages.

I have the following in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
# Add header to ALL messages
add_header all Status _YESNO_, score=_SCORE_ required=_REQD_ tests=_TESTS_ autolearn=_AUTOLEARN_ version=_VERSION_

And this entry in /etc/amavisd.conf
$sa_tag_level_deflt = 0; # add spam info headers if at, or above that level

But yet I haven't been able to figure out why I'm not getting SA headers in the good messages.

Mike

[simonsez]

I'm at work right now and I set all this up using SSH. Now I'm trying to check my mail but I can't go to http://localhost/webmail. How can I access webmail from outside? I tried http://mydomainname.com/webmail but that doesn't work. It says not found.

[rarf5]

Hi everybody

I was experimenting some problems with my mail server, and i reviewed my selinux and iptables and the problems continued but now it's solved just i did the next:
yum install gcc //for updating GCC
and of course
up2date
looking for new versions of dovecot, postfix, squirrel, etc. ..... and now
alll is OK
i feel this could serve you
Thanks again Nephila

[nephila]

Originally Posted by Cajun

Thanks for the excellent writeup. I'm running this configuration on FC3. I am NOT getting the Spamassassin headers in my 'ham' messages.

I have the following in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
# Add header to ALL messages
add_header all Status _YESNO_, score=_SCORE_ required=_REQD_ tests=_TESTS_ autolearn=_AUTOLEARN_ version=_VERSION_

And this entry in /etc/amavisd.conf
$sa_tag_level_deflt = 0; # add spam info headers if at, or above that level

But yet I haven't been able to figure out why I'm not getting SA headers in the good messages.

Mike

If I recall Correctly, AmavisD only tags bad messages, all the good ones are left intact, that might explain why the good ones don't have SA headers, it makes sense, why waste time tagging perfectly ok messages?

[daodao]

Originally Posted by nephila

main.cf:

queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
command_directory = /usr/sbin
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
mail_owner = postfix
myhostname = 192.168.10.28
myorigin = $mydomain

hi, this has been a great guide to me...very appreciate it..thanks....but, I m abit confused on certain areas...

1) as shown, in ur example, u have myhostname as ip, but, I cannot use ip...because it will give error when I try to restart the postfix.
2) how can I configure my mail server to receive external email like yahoo!.

sorry to be such a noob...but, i m a newbie...thanks...cheers...

[Chandran]

Hi,
My server information is
Fedora Core 3, Postfix mail server including Amavis running. My requirement before amavis i want to check the mail content, i wrote it in php program..
Where can i call my php program(main.cf or master.cf)...

Can anybody help me for this ...

Advance thanks for this...


with regards,
Chandran