I would like to install acomplete mail server on debian; postfix + IMAP + SASL + Mysql
I run through all FAQs howtos and other forums but it seems like threre is no way to have all things working unless all modules are recompiled with each others on specific verssions. This is great but nothing works at the end!! and I realy spent two weeks trying all this!
I would like to know If there is something we can do using the debian stable available packages!
Please if you have tryed to implement all this using one of the available howtos I would realy appreciate to have some help!

I got it nearly working except the sasl stuff - I use a different version of sasl so I didnt bother with it.
The postfix how to I followed was this http://www.marlow.dk/?target=postfix.
It sort of worked.
The only thing is to make sure is that Mysql works for inet and not unix sockets - I spent 2 hours on that one - my normal mysql servers are not so secure mandrake.
I also had to add a line to master.cf to allow external mail but I might have deleted that one :-) at some point in the hours I spent on this.
I also had a faulty switch that dropped my connection every few minutes so the whole procedure was a bit disjointed. So I'd love to do it again some time.
So yeah sasl doesnt work but it will one day be using sasl2 and PAM and I was going to read up on using those but then again forwarding mail is a pain and it just attracts the spammers like flies to ....

oh and the amavis stuff works a treat with clam-av. I used amavis-new NOT amavis-ng from testing.

Good Luck.

thanks for your feed back
do you know an interesting url where they explain how all those stuffs work together and how do exchanges occurs between the several modules,....
maybe it's agood point to start at.
I didn't find such syntethique paper!

The postfix site has everything and more.

I know this isn't exactly the answer you are looking for but I found that by following the instructions on this website http://www.qmailrocks.org works great and the end product is one sweet mail server. True it doesn't have postfix.

I've been running a compile from source mail server for days now without a hiccup. Yes, you have to compile everything from source, but this is an excellent way to know what is being installed on your machine.

Just wanted to throw my two pennies in.

I hope you are not having the compiler and several -dev tools on your mailserver since this affects system security.

I agree that both QMail and Postfix are excellent MTA - I dislike Sendmail (because of it's Performance weakness, bad security history, configuration, etc) ...

Take a look at the qmail-src package if you want to use qmail. Postfix is excellent also BTW, and I'm using it on all servers without a single problem.

Boy, being without internet access really bites.

When you say:
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this. I know that I am fairly new to the *nix way of doing things and most certainly not an expert on security, but from my experience there isn't a way to install software without compiling it from sources.

So how do you install software without compiling it? Sure there is ports (freebsd, compiling), portage (gentoo, but isn't that compling also), apt-get (debian, I think that is compiling it also, but I don't know because haven't really tried debian). I suppose the only way to install software is deb, rpm or slackware packages (I am sure there are other packages out there but I am unaware of them) but then one is at the mercy of the developers to make those packages. So basically my question is how does one install software on a *nix system without compiling it?

I suppose, in general, no system is secure unless it is off. By just turning the power on the computer you have an insecure system, eh?

Anyhow, please enlighten me because now I am confused on how to install software for my systems.

Dillweed