Comments on A Simple Mailserver On Arch Linux (Postfix + Dovecot)

Just what I was after - and Arch linux is pretty cool too.

Dovecot no longer supports your conifuration entry on line #4.

Change "ssl_disable = no" to "ssl = yes".

 Do you have a guide to add Amavisd-new and ClamAV? I would love that to my mail server!

Good post.

It may be better to add some configuration information on Postgrey.

Thanks to the author for the detailed how-to, but unfortunately some of the info seems to be out of date. I followed the tutorial step by step on an Arch VPS I have and it didn't work. The problem seems to be with SASL, but other than that, I have no idea.

In /var/log/mail.log I have the following messages:

warning: SASL: Connect to /var/run/dovecot/auth-client failed: No such file or directory

fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms

The path for 'daemon_directory' parameter in postfix configuration has changed from '/usr/lib/postfix' to '/usr/lib/postfix/bin'.

thunderbird says my username or password is wrong. What is the problem? I have username "user", imap and smtp servers "domain.com", starttls, ports 143/587.

This is awesome. Thanks!

Are you aware of any updates or changes that should be made??

This article was written in 2009, and a number of Dovecot configuration lines have changed by 2018. I expect the Postfix stuff has changed too, so its time for an update.  Restarting the services has changed too.

It is STILL not clear how you add new usernames and passwords to the setup.  Do you edit /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and restart the servers every time ?

Postfix/Dovecot ought to be taken out the back of the woodshed and flogged to death for being so complex and non-GUI.