Hi Neil, many things are not clear to me, but this I understood from your original statement, you said "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." >From my experience setting up postfix, to have mail delivered locally to a server, users have to exist on that system. That means that you have to create by hand every single user to be able receive and access faxes and whatnot. Or simply forward mail to your corporate inbox. My suggestion was to simply deploy a prepackaged LDAP distro that you can quickly implement in your setup. If you already have LDAP on your distribution why not use it to manage manage users, addresses and passwords? To me that's the most logical way of accomplishing what you want. And of course, there is a million ways to accomplish tasks in Linux. :) Google search --> http://acidx.net/wordpress/2014/06/installing-a-mailserver-with-postfix-dovecot-sasl-ldap-roundcube/ SDA On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Neal Zimmermann <nealzimm at cpinternet.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2015-08-02 at 20:09 -0500, Saul Alanis 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 > > > > 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 > > > > ___________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > Sorry, I run Fedora here and the idea is to have a intranet mail server. > It really is helpful to get an email from the various pieces of > equipment when they have problems, so yes I will invest the time and > just maybe learn something. > > Saul - I looked at your link, but if I need to use ldap, Fedora has > that pre-packaged, I'll use and learn that. > > Ryan - looked at your link, pretty much is what I have seen googleing > around the internet myself, it does have a couple of points about > some things in dovecot that I will check out. > > Before I added dovecot, postfix was delivering email to the super user > account on the server, it's just that I would like to get everything at > the workstation. > > As for using how-tos for Ubuntu on a Fedora machine - meh, aside from > some trivial differences in installing packages, and starting-up > applications at boot-up, the procedures for running the applications > is mostly the same (same config files). Systemd does give you some > helpful data: > > $ sudo systemctl status postfix.service > postfix.service - Postfix Mail Transport Agent > Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/postfix.service; enabled) > Active: active (running) since Sun 2015-08-02 15:25:05 CDT; 17h ago > Main PID: 28200 (master) > CGroup: /system.slice/postfix.service > ├─ 2163 pickup -l -t unix -u > ├─ 3292 trivial-rewrite -n rewrite -t unix -u > ├─ 3293 smtp -t unix -u > ├─ 3294 bounce -z -n defer -t unix -u > ├─ 3463 cleanup -z -t unix -u > ├─ 3464 local -t unix > ├─28200 /usr/libexec/postfix/master -w > └─28202 qmgr -l -t unix -u > > Aug 03 09:00:09 server.atsome.com postfix/smtp[3293]: 1E03E4C03DB: to=< > me at workstation.atsome.com>, orig_to=<root at server.atsome.com>, relay=none, > delay=63380, delays=63380/0.02/0/0,...ute to > host) > Aug 03 09:01:39 server.atsome.com postfix/pickup[2163]: AF0B54C05C9: > uid=0 from=<root> > Aug 03 09:01:39 server.atsome.com postfix/cleanup[3463]: AF0B54C05C9: > message-id=<20150803140139.AF0B54C05C9 at server.atsome.com> > Aug 03 09:01:39 server.atsome.com postfix/qmgr[28202]: AF0B54C05C9: from=< > root at server.atsome.com>, size=457, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Aug 03 09:01:39 server.atsome.com postfix/cleanup[3463]: B96974C05C3: > message-id=<20150803140139.AF0B54C05C9 at server.atsome.com> > Aug 03 09:01:39 server.atsome.com postfix/qmgr[28202]: B96974C05C3: from=< > root at server.atsome.com>, size=599, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Aug 03 09:01:39 server.atsome.com postfix/local[3464]: AF0B54C05C9: to=< > me at server.atsome.com>, relay=local, delay=0.11, delays=0.07/0.01/0/0.03, > dsn=2.0.0, status=sent > (forwarde...B96974C05C3) > Aug 03 09:01:39 server.atsome.com postfix/qmgr[28202]: AF0B54C05C9: > removed > Aug 03 09:01:39 server.atsome.com postfix/smtp[3293]: connect to > workstation.atsome.com[XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]:25: No route to host > Aug 03 09:01:39 server.atsome.com postfix/smtp[3293]: B96974C05C3: to=< > me at workstation.atsome.com>, orig_to=<me at server.atsome.com>, relay=none, > delay=0.03, delays=0.03/0/0/0, dsn=...ute to > host) > Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full. > _______________________________________________ > 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... 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