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Automatic Cleaning Of Trash And/Or Junk Folders With ISPConfig (With Roundcube + Tmpreaper (Tmpwatch))

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:53:50 +0200

Automatic Cleaning Of Trash And/Or Junk Folders With ISPConfig (With Roundcube + Tmpreaper (Tmpwatch))

This short mini-howto will help you set up automatic cleaning of Trash- and Junkfolders. Most (web)mail clients (can) automatically create these. A lot of people don't clean there maildirectories causing Junk and Trash folders to grow massively in size and with ISPConfig (not yet) being able to set good maildirectory size limits the alternative is to have these folders cleaned after several days.

How To Install The Zimbra Desktop Email Client On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:38:23 +0200

How To Install The Zimbra Desktop Email Client On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)

This article shows how you can install the Zimbra Desktop email client on an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) desktop. Zimbra Desktop is a full-fledged replacement for email clients such as Outlook or Evolution, offering email, contacts, calendar, documents, tasks, etc. You can use it in conjunction with the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) or any other email account that supports POP3 or IMAP.

A Simple Mailserver On Arch Linux (Postfix + Dovecot)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:10:49 +0200

A Simple Mailserver On Arch Linux (Postfix + Dovecot)

This tutorial describes how to install a complete mailserver using Postfix and Dovecot on an Arch Linux machine or VPS. This specific tutorial is based on my 256MB VPS. Basic linux knowledge is required as I'm not describing every step in detail.

Exim Authenticated Smarthost

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:57:02 +0200

Exim Authenticated Smarthost

Today's ISP environment requires authenticated SMTP to be able to send emails. As a policy, authenticated SMTP helps cut down on folks sending SPAM and allows the ISP to track which account is sending what type of email content for further demographic study. While authenticated SMTP is good for the ISP, it is not a configuration supported out of the box by most Linux distributions. This means that all those system emails and log reports emailed by root never make it anywhere anymore.

@Mail Webmail System On Your ISPConfig Server Within 10 Easy Steps

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:30:51 +0200

@Mail Webmail System On Your ISPConfig Server Within 10 Easy Steps

This guide explains how to set up the Open Source version of Atmail (Atmail Open) on your ISPConfig server.

Zimbra Integration With Samba - Ubuntu Based (Similar To AD And Exchange)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:01:51 +0200

Zimbra Integration With Samba - Ubuntu Based (Similar To AD And Exchange)

This tutorial shows how to configure Zimbra Collaboration Server (ZCS) and Samba to act as a primary domain controller (PDC) that uses LDAP as a centralized database for authenticating users on Linux and Windows desktops.

How to add two-factor authentication to Google Apps for your Domain using open source software

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:45:47 +0200

How to add two-factor authentication to Google Apps for your Domain using open source software

Everybody loves GMail. With Google Apps for you Domain, you can use GMail with your own domain, allowing organizations to outsource their email - and the requisite anti-spam filtering to Google. Webmail is very convenient, but for frequent travellers and those who use public wifi, it can be quite dangerous. Logging in from a kiosk or shared computer is a sure way to get your username and password stolen by a keystroke logger. Using a public WiFi system can lead to a man-in-the-middle attack. In this document we will take advantage of two open source projects to add two-factor authentication to Google Apps. The first is Gheimdall, a a TurboGears project for Google Apps SSO service. Gheimdall supports PAM and LDAP authentication natively. It also includes sample code to add new authentication methods, which made it very easy to add two-factor authentication from WiKID. WiKID is a dual-source two-factor authentication solution that uses public key cryptography to strongly authenticate users.

Zimbra Collaboration Suite Open Source Edition On CentOS

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:37:22 +0100

Zimbra Collaboration Suite Open Source Edition On CentOS

This tutorial shows how to set up Zimbra Collaboration Suite - Open Source Edition on CentOS. This tutorial covers installation of CentOS, dependencies for ZCS and setup of Split DNS when working behind a firewall. This tutorial is based on the way I set this server up and is only a suggestion. It carries no guarantees and it is highly suggested that you do this on a test server first to verify functionality. If you don't have a test server available you should download VMWare Server 1.0 and perform this tutorial on a test virtual server.

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, MailScanner, Mailwatch & MySQL On CentOS 5.1

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:59:58 +0100

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, MailScanner, Mailwatch & MySQL On CentOS 5.1

This document describes how to customize Falko's "Virtual Users And Domains" - setup for CentOS 5.1 so that it works with MailScanner and Mailwatch. The resulting system provides a web interface (Mailwatch) where you can manage quarantined emails, train SpamAssassin, edit the white- and blacklist, view configuration files and the detailed MySQL database status ...

Virtual Hosting Howto With Virtualmin On CentOS 5.1

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:34:44 +0100

Virtual Hosting Howto With Virtualmin On CentOS 5.1

This tutorial shows how to set up a CentOS 5.x server to offer all services needed by virtual web hosters. These include web hosting, smtp server with (SMTP-AUTH and TLS, SPF, DKIM, Domainkeys), DNS, FTP, MySQL, POP3/IMAP, Firewall, Webalizer for stats.

Automatically Add Disclaimers To Outgoing Emails With alterMIME On Fedora 8

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:16:44 +0100

Automatically Add Disclaimers To Outgoing Emails With alterMIME On Fedora 8

This document describes how to install and configure alterMIME as a Postfix filter on a Fedora 8 system. The resulting system will automatically add disclaimers to outgoing emails.

Mail Server Setup With Exim, MySQL, Cyrus-Imapd, Horde Webmail On Centos 5.1

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:04:11 +0100

Mail Server Setup With Exim, MySQL, Cyrus-Imapd, Horde Webmail On Centos 5.1

This how to describes the installation and configuration of a mail system on Centos 5.1 with selinux enabled for enhanced security. This system will be able to service HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, TLS, SMTP-AUTH, IMAP, POP3 clients and is virtual enabled allowing more than one domain to be served from the system.

Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Open Source Edition v5.0 On Debian Etch

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:10:12 +0100

Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Open Source Edition v5.0 On Debian Etch

This document describes how to set up the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Open Source Edition v5.0 on Debian Etch. The resulting system provides a full featured collaboration-suite with many features that I can't list all here - please have a look at the feature list. It also comes with a nice (themeable) AJAX web interface for administration and user access.

How To Install & Set Up Dovecot Mail Server With Sieve And Virtual Users

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:27:31 +0200

How To Install & Set Up Dovecot Mail Server With Sieve And Virtual Users

This document describes how to install the Dovecot mail server from source as an imap / pop3 mail server for your domain and how to set up the sieve plugin so your clients can use the sieve mail filtering language for their mail accounts.

Filtering PDF-/XLS-/Image-Spam With ClamAV (And ISPConfig) On Debian/Ubuntu

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:33:59 +0200

Filtering PDF-/XLS-/Image-Spam With ClamAV (And ISPConfig) On Debian/Ubuntu

There is currently a lot of spam where the spam "information" is attached as .pdf or .xls files, sometime also hidden inside a .zip file. While these spam mails are not easy to catch with e.g. SpamAssassin or a Bayes filter, the ClamAV virus scanner can catch them easily when it is fed with the correct signatures as ClamAV is built to scan mail attachments.