How to set up Postfix on ISPConfig?

[teamjoc]

Hey y'all,

Uhm I am running CentOS 5.2 to start with.
Anyway, I have also a e107 website up and running for 99 %....
The 1 % is like the problem; I can not get Postfix to run.
Can anyone give me a tutorial in how-to-set-up Postfix to send automails?
(Like the activationmail in e107 and other php mail() based e-mails...)
I'd like to know how it works...
(I am like 15 (16 at the 9th coming :D) which means that I ain't that experienced regarding hosting...)

Thanks in advance.

[till]

Follow the installation instructions and your setup will work :)

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-centos-5.2

[teamjoc]

Yeah, I have already read that, but I don't have a (Remote) Desktop.
CentOS 5.2 is running on a VPS and the only thing I have is SSH, FTP and root access.

How to do it with this? :)

[falko]

You can do it through SSH (from page 3 on - http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-centos-5.2-p3 - your base system is already installed).

[teamjoc]

Uhm, I already have a CentOS 5.2 system running like you said before, also there is ISPConfig installed already.
Now:
1) The "vi" command doesn't work, how to fix that?
2) /etc/hosts does not exist - also a fix please.

Thanks in advance.

P.S: Output from "ifconfig" is:


eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr AA:00:9F:D9:03:01
inet addr:82.192.86.194 Bcast:82.192.86.255 Mask:255.255.255.192
inet6 addr: fe80::a800:9fff:fed9:301/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1960522 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1348019 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:548456490 (523.0 MiB) TX bytes:421900420 (402.3 MiB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1457858 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1457858 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:653899542 (623.6 MiB) TX bytes:653899542 (623.6 MiB)

[falko]

Uhm, I already have a CentOS 5.2 system running like you said before, also there is ISPConfig installed already.
Now:
1) The "vi" command doesn't work, how to fix that?
Try
yum install vim

2) /etc/hosts does not exist - also a fix please.
Which virtualization technique (Xen, OpenVZ, VMware, etc.) are you using? I guess that with some virtualization techniques, the guests don't come with an /etc/hosts file.