Dr Hidaia Mahmood Alassouli

Creation of Postfix Mail Server Based On Virtual Users and Domains Dr Hidaia Mahmood Alassouli

The purpose behind this project is to create a mail server solution based on Postfix that is based on virtual users and domains. It will also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier-Imap (IMAP/POP3), so it can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting postfix server is capable of quota which is not built into Postfix by default; the project will demonstrate how to patch postfix appropriately. Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database. The project also covers the installation of Mail Scanner, SpamAssassin and ClamAV so that emails will be scanned for spams and viruses. The administration of MySQL database can be done through a web based tool Postfixadmin or can be done manually in the MySQL shell. Postfixadmin is a web based management tool created for Postfix that handles Postfix style virtual domains and users that are stored in MySQL. The squirrelmail web based email client is installed, in order to check emails from anywhere in world via internet. All installations were done in Fedora 5 machine.