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hi there, i'm currently a fedora user, but i'm changing over the slackware once my Cd's arrive, now the reason i'm doing this is i want to setup a mail server were once it is setup all i have to do is add a system account and it is a mail account and my understanding is that uw-imap will do that for me, i've looked and looked and looked and i can't seam to find any how-to guides or setup guides to making a uw-imap/postfix server under slackware if anyone could help me out that'd be great.
Sendmail comes with Slackware. In slackware-current, it's 8.13.3, which is ridiculously easy to set up. You don't need to change the conf file at all, you just need to edit the access file in /etc/mail for relaying. 8.13.3 is the current release of Sendmail, and relaying is turned off by default. If all you're doing is receiving mail, and sending through webmail, you don't need to change anything from the out-of-the-box configuration.
As for UW-IMAP, that's also in Slackware by default, if you've installed the right packages (it's in the same package as pico). Just edit /etc/inetd.conf and uncomment out the IMAP line, and have inetd run at startup.
Since procmail is there by default, and sendmail will use procmail by default, all you have to do to add users is add a system account.
-RK http://killerbob.ca - Apache 2.0.53/mod_ssl, PHP 4.3.10, Sendmail 8.13.3, UW imapd
(I'm also running IlohaMail for webmail access for clients, and SpamAssassin. If you're interested, I can give you the sources for my web-based password and .forward changing scripts. That might help you out, if you're trying to set up as a mail provider.)
thanks for the send mail help. my slackware Cd's should be arriveing any days now but i still can't find any how-to's or setup files on the with with postfix/uw-imap ... so if anyone knows of a good one i'm still looking and i'm looking at useing with imap/pop3 and hopfully down the track webmail
Well, I can't help you with postfix. If you go that route...
If you do end up with Sendmail as your MTA, I can help with the setup files. Somebody'll probably be able to help with postfix. You might want to start with http://www.postfix.org for a howto, if that's the route you choose. You can't use Sendmail *and* Postfix, because the two daemons do exactly the same job.
For POP3, I'd suggest popa3d. It's also included in the N packages for Slackware, and inetd.conf is already configured for it. You just have to uncomment the pop3 line to enable it in inetd like with uw-imapd.
There isn't anything special to getting imapd to work with postfix, or any other mta, really. I've had it running with qmail on the previous incarnation of my mail server, and with sendmail on my current. In both cases, I didn't need to do any special configuration at all. It was quite literally an out-of-the-box installation for uw-imapd. I'd assume it'll be the same with postfix, which is probably why you can't find a howto: you don't need one. Get Postfix working properly, enable uw-imapd in inetd, and you're up and running.
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