Chronophage.net Blog

I host mail for a few friends and family. I use Postfix as my MTA with Dovecot as my SASL/LDA/POP/IMAP server. Users are authenticated via MySQL and PAM, so I can have local, and virtual accounts. To manage things, I user PostfixAdmin, with a few¬† tweeks to accomodate my virtual user’s file structure. Logins are either the full email address (virtual accounts) or the username.

I use a combination of SQLGrey and ClamAV and Maia(SpamAssassin frontend) for my anti-spam/anti-virus protection. SquirrelMail and RoundCube are both availible for webmail. Mutt and Alpine are installed on the server as well.

The Settings are as follows:

Main Settings:

The POP3/IMAP4  and SMTP server is mail.chronophage.net

SMTP Authentication is ON

Ports are: 110/993* 143/995* and 25/587/465* for SMTP.

After switching LDA and SASL over to Dovecot, I have magnanimously set up Sieve scripting for my valuable users. And it works for both virtual and shell accounts.
Shell accounts can use either Squirrelmail, or upload Sieve scripts via the Sieve Thunderbird plugin or place them in your .sieve folder.
Virtual accounts will either have to use Squirrelmail or a program that can speak Sieve (standard port, 2000)
Sieve scripts DO count against your quota, so be careful Virtual Users.
This is LDA level filtering, so I can’t see what it’s doing via my logs, so watch your filters!

There are a lot of Sieve scripts out there, have fun!

Procmail and Maildrop are installed on the system, and can be used for shell users via a .forward file.

Webmail:

http://mail.chronophage.net for SquirrelMail

http://mail.chronophage.net/ for RoundCube

Postfix Admin

http://mail.chronophage.net/postfixadmin redirects to https://mail.chronophage.net/postfixadmin

Shell users should be able to log in with their email address but passwords don’t sync with local passwords.

Send me an email to change passwords.

Posts Related to Chronophage E-mail Settings

• New Chronophage Mail Settings

  So, I changed mail, splitting mail.chronophage.net into a 3 host mail cluster, and a shell server. Unfortunately, I have shell users who were using mail.chronophage.net ...

• Cloudy With a Chance of Productivity…

  I've been waiting, and working. I've been waiting for my work to release a its new product. I've been waiting, politely, for my boss to ...

• Greylisting…Again

  Certain...Parties... Have intoned I am  goofy for implementing weird "mail bouncy thing" that is sometimes frustrating and is a silly anti-spam technique. Well, that would ...

• Nicholas and the Not So Stateful Firewall

  Maybe I'm in a children's book mood while I wait for my daughter to be born, but that title popped into my head. It's been ...

• SpamAssassin

  Spam is the bane of all email servers and services. As I wrote in my email entry, I use Maia, which is a frontend to ...