@Mail Postfix Installation

1 Introduction: What is Postfix?

2 Configuring Postfix for @Mail
    2.1 Postfix Configuration files
        aliases
        virtual
        main.cf

    2.2 How @Mail receives emails

    2.3 Additional Information

3 Contact Information

1 Introduction: What is Postfix?

Postfix is an SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) Server for UNIX. It does the same as Sendmail but is easier to install and configure. You'll need to configure Postfix to deliver mail to your domain to the @Mail system.

2 Configuring Postfix for @Mail

This section will guide you through installation of Postfix on a UNIX platform. These steps must be carried out as the Administrator, i.e. Root user.

Find out where the Postfix configuration files live. This location is usually '/etc/postfix' but in case this is different find out by doing 'locate main.cf'. Change directory to this location and edit the following files:

2.1 Postfix Configuration files

edit aliases
add 'webemail: "|/path/to/atmail/saveemail.pl" '
where /path/to/atmail is the path to the @Mail installation folder in your Webserver.

edit virtual
add '$domainname webemail'
where $domainname is the domainname for which you install @Mail

edit main.cf
add 'myhostname = $domainname'
where $domainname is the domainname for which you install @Mail

Make sure alias_maps and virtual_maps are set correctly in your main.cf:

alias_maps = hash:/path/to/aliases/aliases
virtual_maps = hash:/path/to/virtual/virtual

After this, give the following commands to activate the changes in the virtual and the aliases and to restart the postfix daemon.

If the postmap-, postalias- or postfix-command can not be found in your path find the correct path using 'locate postmap', 'locate postalias', 'locate postfix'.

postmap virtual
postalias aliases
postfix stop
postfix start

2.2 How @Mail receives emails

By setting the aliases file to forward to saveemail.pl (the @Mail-script that receives mail) @Mail now receives all the mail sent to your domain. @Mail can now handle all incoming mail and store it in mailboxes.

2.3 Additional Information

3 Contact Support

For additional support, please visit our web site, http://webbasedemail.com
Or send us an eMail : support@CalaCode.com