Postfix Howtos and FAQs

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• Kyle Dent's Postfix resources.
• Ralf Hildebrandt's Postfix shrine.

• Mischa Peters runs a PostfixWiki.

• Guru Labs class GL275 covers Postfix, email theory, DNS, SMTP Auth, STARTTLS, SpamAssassin, POP3/IMAP4 daemons, and Webmail with Squirrelmail.

The following documents describe how to build the list of valid Exchange recipients for a Postfix 2.x "front end" MTA, so that you don't clog the Postfix mail queue with undeliverable MAILER-DAEMON messages.

• Running commands on the Exchange server and then copying the result to the Postfix box (by Steve Friedl).
• Running a PERL-based LDAP client on the Postfix box that queries the Active Directory domain controllers (by Chris Covington).

• Postfix SASL Authentication and TLS howto by Patrick Koetter.
• Supplement to Patrick Koetter's document by Adam Shostack.
• Gmail on Home Linux Box using Postfix/TLS/SASL and Fetchmail howto by Mike Chirico.
• Postfix SASL + TLS + OpenBSD howto by Jeffrey Posluns.
• Postfix SASL + TLS + FreeBSD howto by Tim Yocum.

• Postfix SASL Authentication and TLS howto by Patrick Koetter.
• Gmail on Home Linux Box using Postfix/TLS/SASL and Fetchmail howto by Mike Chirico.
• Cyrus-SASL-2.1.19 + checkpw.c CRYPT PATCH + MySQL-3.23.x + Postfix-2.x howto by Cody Tubbs.
• Postfix SASL + TLS + OpenBSD howto by Jeffrey Posluns.
• Postfix SASL + TLS + FreeBSD howto by Tim Yocum.
• Postfix SASL for Slackware by Henryk Liniowski (Linio).
• Postfix SMTP Authentication howto by Devin L. Ganger.
• Cyrus+SASL howto by Haim R. Dimermanas.
• Postfix+SASL+OpenSSL howto for Solaris 8 by Andy Barclay.

• Altermime system to alter mime-encoded messages. With Postfix, use this as an external content filter in order to mutilate transit mail.

• Gentoo mailfiltering gateway guide
• Filtering spam with Postfix with spf, postgrey and Amavis by Kirk Strauser.
• How to get Dspam, Postfix, and Procmail to play well together by John Locke.
• Postfix Anti-UCE Cheat-Sheet by Jim Seymour.
• My Understanding Of How UCE Actually Works by Meng Wong.
• Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC by Scott Vintinner.
• Postfix UCE/anti-spam guide by Jeffrey Posluns.
• UCE and other howtos by Ralf Hildebrandt.
• Header/body junk mail patterns by Jesus Climent.
• See also the add-on software page for SpamAssassin etc.

• Gentoo Virtual Mailhosting System with Postfix Guide
• MAC OS X howto for using Postfix with the (ugh) UW IMAP server.
• GNU pop3d howto by Jørgen Thomsen.
• RedHat 7.1 + Postfix + Courier Maildrop + Courier IMAP howto by Robin Whittle.
• Cyrus+SASL howto by Haim R. Dimermanas.
• Postfix+Cyrus+Web-cyradm howto by Luc de Louw.
• Postfix+LDAP+Courier-IMAP howto by Jeroen Vriesman.
• Postfix+MySQL+Courier-IMAP howto by Phil Pereira.
• Postfix+MySQL+Courier-IMAP howto by Mischa Peters.
• Postfix+MySQL+Courier-IMAP howto by Kirby Menzel and Lucas Peet.
• Postfix+MySQL+Courier-IMAP howto by Keith Matthews and contributors.
• Postfix+MySQL+Courier-IMAP+Maildrop+SpamAssassin howto by Serge Stepanov.
• Postfix+MySQL+Courier-IMAP+Amavis howto by Christoph Haas.
• Postfix+MySQL+Courier-IMAP+Amavis howto by Martin List-Petersen.
• Postfix+MySQL+Courier+SpamAssassin+Clamav+Amavisd-new+SASL+Maildrop+Squirrelmail howto by Genco YILMAZ. Uses the postfixmanager user management tool.

• Multiple Postfix instances howto by Derrick Webber.
• RedHat 7.3 laptop howto by Mark Frazer.
• Postfix Howtos by Ralf Hildebrandt.
• Postfix Howtos by Matthias Andree.

General Email/System Administration

• Fixing common DNS problems (bind8nt.meiway.com)
• Simplifying Mailer Daemons and Associated Tools by Chuck S. Mead, Jr.
• Configuring large-scale UNIX/Linux servers (www.kegel.com)