Adding new mailbox to postfix/dovecot?

centosfan · 01-29-2012, 01:33 PM

I have postfix/dovecot installed over webmin but virtualmin part not working,throwing some perl execution failed so that means i cant use virtualmin to create accounts or mailboxes.Could be some bug considering i installed cent os 6 which is still fresh.
Anyone knows how to add manually mailbox?When i check tutorials on google i see they say to add virtual domain mailbox to main.cnf and also add new user,and before that to add
dns entries-mail.domain.com A ipadressofserver MX 10 mail.domain.com
So i added dns entry,but it's not clear how to connect created os username with mail username/mailbox.For example,how i would create mailbox info@domain.com with same username and point it to user folder ?

tva · 01-29-2012, 01:39 PM

You could try installing Postfixadmin, there should be rather good installing instructions attached, if you need easy interface for administrating mailboxes.

centosfan · 01-29-2012, 01:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tva

You could try installing Postfixadmin, there should be rather good installing instructions attached, if you need easy interface for administrating mailboxes.

I tried that too by following this tutorial:http://www.linuxmail.info/postfix-admin-howto-centos-5/
but it seems it missing part where postfix uses mysql data for aliases.Do you know any tutorial which explain that part too?

tva · 01-29-2012, 11:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by centosfan

I tried that too by following this tutorial:http://www.linuxmail.info/postfix-admin-howto-centos-5/
but it seems it missing part where postfix uses mysql data for aliases.Do you know any tutorial which explain that part too?

I have it like this. I'll look at that tutorial when I have more time and check if this would work with it too.

In main.cf

Code:

virtual_alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf

/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf

Code:

user = username
password = password
hosts = localhost
dbname = database

query = SELECT goto FROM alias WHERE address = '%s'