Postfix + Dovecot = insanity

I did the whole courier + postfix thing and managed to get it working, but later just moved my email to google apps beta.

Awesome spam filtering, and I don't need to worry too mcuh about my mail being down coz my linode is down. :P

Well, shoot. I'm outsourcing my downloads with cachefly so I might as well outsource email too! lol. $50 /yr seems pretty reasonable considering how much time I would be wasting configuring these 2 things manually.

Sales are automated and I need a way to send keys etc with a PHP script. How well does it play with PHP/PHPMailer? Do you have the Premier account? If so, what do the outgoing headers look like when sent from a MUA like Thunderbird?

Very interested..

@A32:

I'm about to just give up on this SMTP/POP3 thing.

http://adminspotting.net/building-a-messaging-server

It's not really that hard.

That looks pretty simple but unfortunately in a fit of .. something .. I deleted the /etc/init.d/postfix file. When I apt-get install postfix it didn't put the file back.. I wonder where I could get the postfix & dovecot files for init.d (Debian 4) :-P

edit: just tried dpkg –remove and --purge but it choked because it couldn't find the file I know is missing /etc/init.d/postfix lol.. So I

> touch /etc/init.d/postfix

dpkg –purge postfix

dpkg --remove postfix
Of course, it couldn't be removed cause it wasn't installed. OK.

> apt-get install postfix
brought me to the initial intallation so we will see how it turns out!!

Okay.. I'm all set except for one thing.. It says I have 0 emails yet the mail file contains all of them. I'm assuming that I've got the defaultmailenv wrong..

My mail resides in /var/spool/mail/domain.com/user

My defaultmailenv = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%d/:INBOX=%u

(among other things I've tried).. Hmm..

EDIT! mbox:/var/spool/mail/%d/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%d/%u

yay.

Now I'm getting messages that I've already downloaded.. all day long. How frustrating.

Dovecot is the devil, switched back to courier.

Well, I thought I'd post an update..

I changed from mbox to maildir and it hasn't happened again.

How does Courier compare to Dovecot memory-wise?