Contributing to this document

Many parts of this tutorial were tried, researched and documented by helpful readers. If you would like to contribute to this tutorial you are invited to. Just use the "Add new comment" link at the bottom of each page. If possible your contributions will be added to the tutorial in the right places.

Comments

Make Postfix start AFTER Dovecot

Hi,

I had to make Postfix start after Dovecot, changing symlink /etc/rc2.d/S20postfix to /etc/rc2.d/S25postfix.

Without this, I had the following error after rebooting:

Jul 26 09:41:12 nix postfix/smtpd[2111]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: No such file or directory
Jul 26 09:41:12 nix postfix/smtpd[2111]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
Jul 26 09:41:13 nix postfix/master[2048]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 2111 exit status 1
Jul 26 09:41:13 nix postfix/master[2048]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
Jul 26 09:41:34 nix dovecot: dovecot v1.1.13 starting up (core dumps disabled)

What is strange is that I do not get this error when I start Postfix while Dovecot is stopped after booting!

Cheers, Julien

Fixed

Hi, It seems it was fixed with a new upload to unstable. Check http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543473 for further information. Cheers, Julien

Thanks for the great

Thanks for the great tutorial!

Thank you!

Just wanted to express my thanks for the excellent tutorial, really helpful!

Thank you so much

Thank you so much for this tutorial. Without, I'd have much more gray hair (and there are so manny by now). Really great: Easy to read, informatove and extremely helpful.

Thank you.

Btw: Ich hab auf einer XJ600 angefangen, zu moppeln. Sehr nett :)

Thanks for the feedback

Makes me wonder when the winter will end. I'm eager to get myself onto the bike again. :)

Thank you

Thank you for this great tutorial, my server is now working for several months perfectly and I used 90% of this tutorial.

The only thing I changed was to adapt it to Postfixadmin, which I have to apologize to because of the work you have done to do yours.

People like you are very valuable and respectable because they give to the others so much work and knowledge.

Patrice Vigier

Thank you

Thank you very much for this great tutorial; it is clear, accurate and easy to understand

and implement. so thanks again for your great efforts.

just I think the topic of mailing lists is missing. we need to know how to create a mailing list

such as noc@mydomain.com and add some users to this list..

it will be appreciated if you add this topic to this great tutorial.

thank you very much

Will do

Right. Somehow that slid from my todo list. I'll write about DKIM and mailman then.