9 Postfix With SMTP-AUTH And TLS

Now let's install Postfix and Cyrus-SASL:

yast2 -i postfix cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-crammd5 cyrus-sasl-digestmd5 cyrus-sasl-gssapi cyrus-sasl-otp cyrus-sasl-plain cyrus-sasl-saslauthd procmail

Then we add the system startup links for Postfix and saslauthd and start them:

chkconfig --add postfix
/etc/init.d/postfix start

chkconfig --add saslauthd
/etc/init.d/saslauthd start

Afterwards we create the certificates for TLS:

mkdir /etc/postfix/ssl
cd /etc/postfix/ssl/
openssl genrsa -des3 -rand /etc/hosts -out smtpd.key 1024

chmod 600 smtpd.key
openssl req -new -key smtpd.key -out smtpd.csr

openssl x509 -req -days 3650 -in smtpd.csr -signkey smtpd.key -out smtpd.crt

openssl rsa -in smtpd.key -out smtpd.key.unencrypted

mv -f smtpd.key.unencrypted smtpd.key
openssl req -new -x509 -extensions v3_ca -keyout cakey.pem -out cacert.pem -days 3650

Next we configure Postfix for SMTP-AUTH and TLS:

postconf -e 'mydomain = example.com'
postconf -e 'myhostname = server1.$mydomain'
postconf -e 'mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8'
postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_local_domain ='
postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes'
postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous'
postconf -e 'broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes'
postconf -e 'smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,check_relay_domains'
postconf -e 'inet_interfaces = all'
postconf -e 'alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases'
postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_auth_only = no'
postconf -e 'smtp_use_tls = yes'
postconf -e 'smtpd_use_tls = yes'
postconf -e 'smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes'
postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key'
postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt'
postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem'
postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1'
postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_received_header = yes'
postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s'
postconf -e 'tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom'

To enable TLS connections in Postfix, edit /etc/postfix/master.cf and uncomment the tlsmgr line so that it looks like this one:

vi /etc/postfix/master.cf

[...]
tlsmgr    unix  -       -       n       1000?   1       tlsmgr
[...]

Now restart Postfix:

/etc/init.d/postfix restart

To see if SMTP-AUTH and TLS work properly now run the following command:

telnet localhost 25

After you have established the connection to your Postfix mail server type

ehlo localhost

If you see the lines

250-STARTTLS

and

250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN

then everything is fine.

On my system the output looks like this:

server1:/etc/postfix/ssl # telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 server1.example.com ESMTP Postfix
ehlo localhost
250-server1.example.com
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN
quit
221 2.0.0 Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.
server1:/etc/postfix/ssl #

Type

quit

to return to the system's shell.

10 Courier-IMAP/Courier-POP3

I want to use a POP3/IMAP daemon that has Maildir support. That's why I use Courier-IMAP and Courier-POP3.

yast2 -i courier-imap fam-server courier-authlib expect tcl

Afterwards we add the system startup links and start POP3, IMAP, POP3s and IMAPs:

chkconfig --add fam
chkconfig --add courier-authdaemon
chkconfig --add courier-pop
chkconfig --add courier-imap
/etc/init.d/courier-pop start
/etc/init.d/courier-imap start
chkconfig --add courier-pop-ssl
chkconfig --add courier-imap-ssl
/etc/init.d/courier-pop-ssl start
/etc/init.d/courier-imap-ssl start

If you do not want to use ISPConfig, configure Postfix to deliver emails to a user's Maildir*:

postconf -e 'home_mailbox = Maildir/'
postconf -e 'mailbox_command ='
/etc/init.d/postfix restart

*Please note: You do not have to do this if you intend to use ISPConfig on your system as ISPConfig does the necessary configuration using procmail recipes. But please go sure to enable Maildir under Management -> Server -> Settings -> EMail in the ISPConfig web interface.

11 Apache/PHP5

Now we install Apache with PHP5:

yast2 -i apache2 apache2-devel apache2-mod_perl apache2-mod_php5 apache2-prefork perl-HTML-Parser perl-HTML-Tagset perl-Tie-IxHash perl-URI perl-libwww-perl php5 php5-devel zlib zlib-devel

Then we install some PHP5 modules:

yast2 -i php5-bcmath php5-bz2 php5-calendar php5-ctype php5-curl php5-dbase php5-dom php5-ftp php5-gd php5-gettext php5-gmp php5-iconv php5-imap php5-ldap php5-mbstring php5-mcrypt php5-mhash php5-mysql php5-ncurses php5-odbc php5-openssl php5-pcntl php5-pgsql php5-posix php5-shmop php5-snmp php5-soap php5-sockets php5-sqlite php5-sysvsem php5-tokenizer php5-wddx php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl php5-zlib php5-exif php5-fastcgi php5-pear php5-sysvmsg php5-sysvshm ImageMagick curl

Next we edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf:

vi /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

and change DirectoryIndex to

[...]
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.cgi index.php index.php5 index.php4 index.php3 index.pl index.html.var index.aspx default.aspx
[...]

Edit /etc/sysconfig/apache2 and add rewrite to the APACHE_MODULES line:

vi /etc/sysconfig/apache2

[...]
APACHE_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_file authz_host authz_groupfile authz_default authz_user authn_dbm autoindex cgi dir env expires include log_config mime negotiation setenvif ssl suexec userdir php5 rewrite"
[...]

Also add SSL to the APACHE_SERVER_FLAGS line:

[...]
APACHE_SERVER_FLAGS="SSL"
[...]

Now configure your system to start Apache at boot time:

chkconfig --add apache2

Then run

SuSEconfig
/etc/init.d/apache2 start

11.1 Disable PHP And Perl Globally

(If you do not plan to install ISPConfig on this server, please skip this section!)

In ISPConfig you will configure PHP and Perl on a per-website basis, i.e. you can specify which website can run PHP and Perl scripts and which one cannot. This can only work if PHP and Perl are disabled globally because otherwise all websites would be able to run PHP/Perl scripts, no matter what you specify in ISPConfig.

To disable PHP and Perl globally, we edit /etc/mime.types and comment out the application/x-perl and application/x-php lines:

vi /etc/mime.types

[...]
#application/x-perl pl pm al perl
#application/x-php php php3 php4
[...]

Then edit /etc/apache2/conf.d/php5.conf and comment out all AddHandler lines:

vi /etc/apache2/conf.d/php5.conf

<IfModule mod_php5.c>
        #AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php4
        #AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php5
        #AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
        #AddHandler application/x-httpd-php-source .php4s
        #AddHandler application/x-httpd-php-source .php5s
        #AddHandler application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
        DirectoryIndex index.php4
        DirectoryIndex index.php5
        DirectoryIndex index.php
</IfModule>

Afterwards we restart Apache:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart