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Qmail OpenLdap On Ubuntu

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:17:47 +0200

Qmail OpenLdap On Ubuntu

This guide will help you easily set up a email server On Ubuntu using Qmail as MTA, OpenLDAP as a back-end for users, and Courier IMAP for IMAP server.

iRedOS-0.6.0: Open Source Mail Server With Postfix, Dovecot, Amavisd, ClamAV, SpamAssassin, RoundCube

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:36:49 +0200

iRedOS-0.6.0: Open Source Mail Server With Postfix, Dovecot, Amavisd, ClamAV, SpamAssassin, RoundCube

iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a Open Source Mail Server solution in less than 2 minutes. iRedOS is a customized CentOS 5.5 distribution, where e unnecessary packages were removed. It ships with the lastest version of iRedMail (iredmail0.6.0); it lets you install iredmail more quickly and smooth.

Installing Maia Mailguard On Debian Lenny (Virtual Users/Domains With Postfix/MySQL)

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:19:29 +0200

Installing Maia Mailguard On Debian Lenny (Virtual Users/Domains With Postfix/MySQL)

This guide explains how to install Maia Mailguard, a spam and virus management system, on a Debian Lenny mailserver. Maia Mailguard is a web-based interface and management system based on the popular amavisd-new email scanner and SpamAssassin. Written in Perl and PHP, Maia Mailguard gives end-users control over how their mail is processed by virus scanners and spam filters, while giving mail administrators the power to configure site-wide defaults and limits.

Changing From SquirrelMail To RoundCube On Your ISPConfig3 Server

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:58:04 +0100

Changing From SquirrelMail To RoundCube On Your ISPConfig3 Server

This tutorial has been created for those who have installed The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.4 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3] and do not like SquirrelMail as webmail client. Here’s a guide to replace SquirrelMail with RoundCube, which is more visually attractive and easier to manage for our clients.

iRedMail 0.6: Full-Featured Mail Server With OpenLDAP/Postfix/Dovecot/Amavisd/ClamAV/SpamAssassin/iRedAdmin On FreeBSD

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:56:02 +0100

iRedMail 0.6: Full-Featured Mail Server With OpenLDAP/Postfix/Dovecot/Amavisd/ClamAV/SpamAssassin/RoundCube/iRedAdmin On FreeBSD

iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. Since version 0.6, it supports FreeBSD 7.2 and 8.0 (it supports both i386 and x86_64). Its object is to make a Linux mail server installation and configuration simple and easy to use. iRedMail supports both OpenLDAP and MySQL as backends for storing virtual domains and users. This tutorial shows how to use the OpenLDAP backend; it uses FreeBSD 7.2, but the steps for 8.0 are the same.

Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd On Ubuntu 9.04

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:36:12 +0100

Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd On Ubuntu 9.04

iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. Since version 0.5, it supports CentOS 5.x, Debian 5.x, Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 9.04 (both i386 and x86_64). iRedMail supports both OpenLDAP and MySQL as backends for storing virtual domains and users. The OpenLDAP backend of iRedMail allows you to integrate all kinds of applications. This guide shows you how to integrate pure-ftpd into the iRedMail ldap backend on Ubuntu 9.04, passwords will be stored in ldap and you can change the password through webmail.

Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd On Debian Lenny

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:33:07 +0100

Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd On Debian Lenny

iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. Since version 0.5, it supports CentOS 5.x, Debian 5.x, Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 9.04 (both i386 and x86_64). iRedMail supports both OpenLDAP and MySQL as backends for storing virtual domains and users. The OpenLDAP backend of iRedMail allows you to integrate all kinds of applications. This guide shows you how to integrate pure-ftpd into the iRedMail ldap backend on Debian Lenny, passwords will be stored in ldap and you can change the password through webmail.

Configuring fail2ban With SquirrelMail On Debian Lenny 5.0/ISPConfig 3

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:01:02 +0200

Configuring fail2ban With SquirrelMail On Debian Lenny 5.0/ISPConfig 3

In this article I will show how to prevent brute force attacks with Fail2ban against your SquirrelMail Web login using the Squirrel Logger plugin.

How To Configure SquirrelMail To Allow Users To Change Their Email Passwords On An ISPConfig 3 Server

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:42:54 +0200

How To Configure SquirrelMail To Allow Users To Change Their Email Passwords On An ISPConfig 3 Server

This guide explains how you can configure your SquirrelMail webmail application on an ISPConfig 3 server so that email users can change their passwords themselves directly in SquirrelMail.

Configuring fail2ban With SquirrelMail On CentOS 5.3/ISPConfig 3

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:32:56 +0200

Configuring fail2ban With SquirrelMail On CentOS 5.3/ISPConfig 3

This tutorial shows how you can prevent unlimited login attempts and hence brute force attacks against your SquirrelMail web login by using fail2ban.

How To Log Emails Sent With PHP's mail() Function To Detect Form Spam

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:41:24 +0200

How To Log Emails Sent With PHP's mail() Function To Detect Form Spam

If you are running a webserver you might have faced the problem already: somewhere on your server is a vulnerable contact form or CMS system written in PHP that gets abused by spammers to send emails trough your server. If you have more than a few websites, it is a pain to detect which of the sites is vulnerable and sends the spam emails. This tutorial explains the installation of a small wrapper script which logs email messages sent trough the PHP mail() function.

Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:41:19 +0200

Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd

iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. Since iRedMail 0.5, it supports Debian 5.0.1 and Ubuntu 8.04 & Ubuntu 9.04 (both i386 and x86_64). iRedMail supports both OpenLDAP and MySQL as backends for storing virtual domains and users. The OpenLDAP backend of iRedMail allows you to integrate all kinds of applications. This guide shows you how to integrate pure-ftpd into the iRedMail ldap backend on CentOS 5.x, passwords will be stored in ldap and you can change the password through webmail.

Goldfish, A PHP Autoresponder Script

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:47:29 +0200

Goldfish, A PHP Autoresponder Script For The HowtoForge "Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail " Setups

Goldfish is a quite simple autoresponder script (written in PHP) for Postfix. It consists of only one PHP file which can be started through a cronjob. It works with our "Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail" tutorials (it cannot be used for other setups, especially Postfix setups that don't use a MySQL database).

How To Install Qmailtoaster (CentOS 5.3)

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:29:42 +0200

How To Install Qmailtoaster (CentOS 5.3)

Qmailtoaster is a project that aims to make the installation of Qmail onto RPM based systems a snap. All of the packages are distributed in source RPMs so building the packages for your particular distro and architecture is as easy as running a script or a simple command for each package. The RPMs have all of the needed and commonly asked for patches included so you can have a mail server up and running in about an hour. When it's all complete, you'll have a full Qmail mail server installation ready for just about anything. I personally run Qmailtoaster servers for other companies and ISPs who have tens of thousands of users on their systems.

How To Configure An Email Account In Thunderbird

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:48:15 +0200

How To Configure An Email Account In Thunderbird

This guide explains how you can configure a POP3 account in Mozilla Thunderbird. I'm assuming that Mozilla Thunderbird is already installed.