Yeah, that’s a royal PITB. I used the following tutorial to set up a SQL-driven virtual domain system when LDAP was no longer viable for our needs. http://www.geoffstratton.com/2013/05/ubuntu-mail-server-postfix-dovecot/ <http://www.geoffstratton.com/2013/05/ubuntu-mail-server-postfix-dovecot/> And it’s been working very well for my needs. Since it seems like you’re starting from scratch perhaps you could go this route? > On Aug 2, 2015, at 8:09 PM, Saul Alanis <sdalano at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey Neal- > > Sounds like a pretty significant task IMO and not a lot of time. > > I wouldn't even know where to begin to advice you and you didn't even mention what distribution you're running? > > Guess it doesn't really matter and I don't have much for you other than suggesting looking into distributions that serve just the directory services space. > > There's a few of them that offer a lot of the services out of the box, I looked into this myself a while back. If it is work related they may not even let you install FOSS without some type of approval. > > Anyhow, my google searching skills are lacking right now and the only example I could come up is: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/openldap <https://www.turnkeylinux.org/openldap> > > Sounds like this is what you need. I am sure you'll get some type of response with other perhaps better suggestions. > > Good luck! > > SDA > > > > On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Neal Zimmermann <nealzimm at cpinternet.com <mailto:nealzimm at cpinternet.com>> wrote: > It is a long story, but I needed to set up the server to send and > receive faxes. To this end I installed Hylafax which said it needed an > email server. So I set up postfix, which needed dovecot, which needed, > at minimum, pam. > > I have all of that working except I have no idea (from the online how > tos) to setup a data base of users, addresses, and passwords. > > Anyone have time to help? My presence on the list is sporatic, > depending on my break times at work. I am usually at the keyboard at > the server mornings from 8:00 am to 9:00 am. At work I might be found > reading my email at 12:00 am to 12:15 am, 2:15 pm to 2:30 mp, 4:15 pm > to 4:45 pm and 6:45 pm to 7:00 pm. Of course I cann't do much then but > accept your condolences. > > For now if you would point me at some instructions on how to set up the > data base, I would be most grateful. > > Neal > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150802/2c08f588/attachment.html>