I have being following some tutorials about starting up an email server on slackware.... but until now now success.... the most I can get is my postfix receiving the messages... smtp with authenticate relay doesnt work, login in pop3 or imap doesnt work too. This mean that I followed some links about setting up a server with Postfix+MySQL+Courier-imap and nothing goes right in the end. The only thing is working property is postfix that is reading the accounts delivery information from mysql and delivering the messages in the right folder.... but imap, pop3, nothing is working, I can connect but cant log, and the worse is that there are no error in the logs.. Im realy lost.
But what I realy want is to know if anybody know a good link (something tested and working) on how to configure a email server on SLACKWARE....


regards [ ]'s

I have run several Slackware based mailservers in the past. I always used Sendmail as the MTA and Cyrus-IMAP for the storage and IMAP/POP support. This has always worked well and is rather straight-forward to setup, but currently I have no companies running a Slack mailserver that I support.

At home, I run Cyrus-IMAP as well, and Sendmail which is specially configured so that I could plug in Amavisd-new which is now scanning every email that passes for viruses (using ClamAV ) and for SPAM (using SpamAssassin ).

I have never written down a good tutorial on how to set this up, it is not completely trivial. Maybe I should do that some time... but there are a lot of pointers on the Internet (use Google!) to configure all that. Especially the Amavisd-new help pages are great if you want to know how to integrate virus- and spam scanning into sendmail or postfix.

Slackware of course does not come with a Postfix package, but Slackware 10.2 does have SMTP AUTH support in it's Sendmail package.

Eric

I have spend weeks already trying some tutorials I find .... the last one looked the best and in the end still having problems with authentication...
And I know that the problem is on courier-imap... but I cant find how to make it work... its all right setted, passwords, fields on the mysql table, in the logs of mysql I see the query from courier but it still cant login... Im thinking it have to do with authentication support on slackware even after patching cyrus-sasl and postfix courier dont seen to be authenticating right... =/ very confusing.