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Now that you have qmail up and running, we're going to add a few extras onto it. For starters, we're going to install Courier-imap/imaps along with Courierpassd. Installing IMAP will, obviously, enable IMAP connections to the mail server and it is a necessary ingredient for most popular web based mail clients such as Horde, SQwebmail and Squirrelmail. Courier-imap is the preferred IMAP server to install because it has built in support the vchkpw mail user setup that Vpopmail utilizes. In short, Courier IMAP works with Vpopmail and virtual domains. In addition to installing Courier-imap, we're going to install Courierpassd. Courierpassd is a utility that allows users to change their mailbox passwords remotely. This will come in handy when we install Squirrelmail in the next step of the installation. Courierpassd will allow your mail users to change their passwords using the Squirrelmail interface. This will give your users more power over their account settings and, more importantly, keep them from pestering you whenever they want to change their passwords. ;)
So let's install it......
cd /downloads/qmailrocks/
bunzip courier-imap-3.0.8.tar.bz2 (Note: some systems may use bunzip2 instead of bunzip)
tar xvf courier-imap-3.0.8.tar
cd courier-imap-3.0.8
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --exec-prefix=/usr/local --without-authdaemon --with-authvchkpw --without-authldap --disable-root-check --with-ssl
Note: the configure process will take a few minutes. Go grab a snack...
make && make install-strip
cd /usr/local/etc
Make sure that the files "imapd" and "imapd-ssl" exist. If they do not exist, do the following:
cp imapd.dist imapd
cp imapd-ssl.dist imapd-ssl
Now let's create an SSL certificate for the IMAP-SSL server...
/usr/local/sbin/mkimapdcert
This will start and automated process that creates a self-signed imap-ssl X.509 certificate called imapd.pem. It should create this new certificate at /usr/local/share/imapd.pem. If the certificate already exists, the "mkimapdcert" tool will not let you overwrite it.
A Note on IMAP-SSL certificates: Keep in mind that since this SSL certificate is self-signed and is not from a "trusted" authority such as Verisign or Thawte, mail clients such as Outlook will give a warning when they attempt to connect to your IMAP-SSL server on port 993. The warning will state that the certificate is not from a "trusted" authority. While the warning is a bit ugly, it does NOT mean your IMAP-SSL connection is any less secure than it would be with a real certificate from Verisign or Thawte. All it means is that the SSL certificate was not generated by a company which Microsoft recognizes as a "trusted" authority. From a security standpoint, however, your IMAP-SSL server is every bit as secure as it would be if you bought the certificate from Verisign or Thawte. If the warning is too inconvenient for your purposes, you will need to purchase a "real" certificate from a "trusted" authority such as Verisign or Thawte. Be prepared to shell out a good chunk of change if you do so.
vi imapd-ssl
make sure IMAPDSSLSTART=YES
Save and exit.
Special note for people running a small home or office network: If you are planning on having multiple users connect to your IMAP server from a single IP address, such as in a small home or office network, you may want to increase the "MAXPERIP" setting with the /usr/local/etc/imapd config file. This setting establishes the maximum number of IMAP connections that can be made from a single IP address. An example of this might be if you have a small office network runing on a single DSL or Cable IP address and your mail server is outside of that network. While each computer in your internal network may have it's own private IP address, to the outside world anyone coming from your network has the single routeable IP address assigned to your DSL or Cable connection. The default setting for "MAXPERIP" is 4 so f you have a similar network setup and more than 4 people trying to access your IMAP server, you may want to increase this setting accordingly to avoid connection errors. Within the /usr/local/etc/imapd file, the line you are looking for looks like this: MAXPERIP=4 |
cp /usr/local/libexec/imapd.rc /usr/local/etc/rc.d/imap.sh
cp /usr/local/libexec/imapd-ssl.rc /usr/local/etc/rc.d/imaps.sh
Now let's start up IMAP and IMAP SSL...
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/imap.sh start
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/imaps.sh start
If IMAP is running correctly, a "ps -auxw" should show several processes labeled "/usr/local/libexec/authlib/authdaemond.plain start"
If you run "nmap localhost", you should see both 143 and 993 now open and listening.
Now let's test it...
telnet localhost 143
Trying 192.168.1.10...
Connected to 192.168.1.10.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2003 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information.
a login postmaster@mydomain.com my_password
a OK LOGIN Ok. (successful login!)
a logout (logs you out)
* BYE Courier-IMAP server shutting down
a OK LOGOUT completed
Connection closed by foreign host.
Hint: The "a" that you see before my login commands is required.
If you were able to log in , as in the example above, you're all set. IMAP is installed!
Now that Couroier-imap is installed, let's install Courierpassd. Remember, Courierpassd is going allow us to enable your mail users to change their own mail passwords via the Squirrelmail interface.
Note: Courierpassd will require that port 106 be open to at least local traffic (traffic from 127.0.0.1)
cd /downloads/qmailrocks
tar zxvf courierpassd-1.0.1.tar.gz
cd courierpassd-1.0.1
./configure --with-couriersrc=/downloads/qmailrocks/courier-imap-3.0.8
make && make install
OK. Courierpassd is installed now. Next, we are going to configure Xinetd/Inetd to run courierpassd. Most Redhat installations use Xinetd, but I've included Inetd directions just in case
If your server uses Xinetd, here's how you integrate Courierpassd into it: cd /etc/xinetd.d Here we create the xinetd script for courierpassd... vi courierpassd service courierpassd Note: You may want to add additional IP's to the "only_from" setting above, depending on your needs. Save and exit. |
If your server uses Inetd, here's how integrate Courierpassd into it: vi /etc/inetd.conf Add the following line: courierpassd stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/sbin/courierpassd -s imap Save and exit. |
Now let's add the Courierpassd service to the system's services file:
vi /etc/services
Append to following line to the /etc/services file:
courierpassd 106/tcp #for /etc/xinetd.d/courierpassd
If your system uses Xinetd, them we now want to restart Xinetd:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart
If your system uses Inetd, then we now want to restart Inetd
/etc/rc.d/init.d/inetd restart
And for good measure, let's restart Courier-imap..
/etc/rc.d/init.d/imap stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/imaps stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/imap start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/imaps start
Now let's test Courierpassd by trying the reset the password for a mail account. Here's what a successfull test should look like:
root@freebsd:/# telnet localhost 106
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 courierpassd v0.30 hello, who are you?
user postmaster@qmailrocks.org
200 Your password please.
pass my_password (don't be a dumbass. Put your own password here)
200 Your new password please.
newpass my_new_password (don't be a dumbass. Put your new password here)
200 Password changed, thank-you.
quit
200 Bye.
Connection closed by foreign host.
root@freebsd:/#
If the above session is successful for you, Courierpassd is working correctly!
Now that we've got Courier-imap and Courierpassd installed, let's install the webmail client - Squirrelmail.
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