Postfix Howtos and FAQs

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FAQs

Kyle Dent's Postfix resources.
Ralf Hildebrandt's Postfix shrine.

Training

Heinlein Linux Akademie offers a five-day training course on Postfix.
IT-Schulungen.com offers Postfix trainings from project experienced trainers, as well as other open source technologies.
GFU It-Consult offers Postfix workshops up to 4 times a year.
Linuxhotel offers a five-day training course on Postfix.
Guru Labs class GL275 covers Postfix, email theory, DNS, SMTP Auth, STARTTLS, SpamAssassin, POP3/IMAP4 daemons, and Webmail with Squirrelmail.
Adaptech Systems class AS220 is a two-day course on Postfix and email security including a spam quarantine system that was developed to work with Postfix.

MS Exchange Integration

The following documents describe how to build the list of valid Exchange recipients for a Postfix 2.x "front end" MTA, so that you don't clog the Postfix mail queue with undeliverable MAILER-DAEMON messages.

Running commands on the Exchange server and then copying the result to the Postfix box (by Steve Friedl).
Running a PERL-based LDAP client on the Postfix box that queries the Active Directory domain controllers (originally by Chris Covington).

TLS

Postfix SASL Authentication and TLS howto by Patrick Koetter.
Supplement to Patrick Koetter's document by Adam Shostack.
Gmail on Home Linux Box using Postfix/TLS/SASL and Fetchmail howto by Mike Chirico.
Postfix SASL + TLS + OpenBSD howto by Jeffrey Posluns.
Postfix SASL + TLS + FreeBSD howto by Tim Yocum.

SASL

Postfix SASL Authentication and TLS howto by Patrick Koetter.
Gmail on Home Linux Box using Postfix/TLS/SASL and Fetchmail howto by Mike Chirico.
Cyrus-SASL-2.1.19 + checkpw.c CRYPT PATCH + MySQL-3.23.x + Postfix-2.x howto by Cody Tubbs.
Postfix SASL + TLS + OpenBSD howto by Jeffrey Posluns.
Postfix SASL + TLS + FreeBSD howto by Tim Yocum.
Postfix SASL for Slackware by Henryk Liniowski (Linio).
Postfix SMTP Authentication howto by Devin L. Ganger.
Postfix+SASL+OpenSSL howto for Solaris 8 by Andy Barclay.

Adding disclaimers

Altermime system to alter mime-encoded messages. With Postfix, use this as an external content filter in order to mutilate transit mail.

UCE/Virus

Gentoo mailfiltering gateway guide
Filtering spam with Postfix with spf, postgrey and Amavis by Kirk Strauser.
How to get Dspam, Postfix, and Procmail to play well together by John Locke.
Postfix Anti-UCE Cheat-Sheet by Jim Seymour.
My Understanding Of How UCE Actually Works by Meng Wong.
Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC by Scott Vintinner.
Postfix UCE/anti-spam guide by Jeffrey Posluns.
UCE and other howtos by Ralf Hildebrandt.
Header/body junk mail patterns by Jesus Climent.
See also the add-on software page for SpamAssassin etc.

POP/IMAP and the kitchen sink

Gentoo Virtual Mailhosting System with Postfix Guide
GNU pop3d howto by Jørgen Thomsen.
RedHat 7.1 + Postfix + Courier Maildrop + Courier IMAP howto by Robin Whittle.
Postfix+Cyrus+Web-cyradm howto by Luc de Louw.
Postfix+LDAP+Courier-IMAP howto by Jeroen Vriesman.
Postfix+MySQL+Courier-IMAP howto by Phil Pereira.
Postfix+MySQL+Courier-IMAP howto by Mischa Peters.
Postfix+MySQL+Courier-IMAP howto by Kirby Menzel and Lucas Peet.
Postfix+MySQL+Courier-IMAP howto by Keith Matthews and contributors.
Postfix+MySQL+Courier-IMAP+Maildrop+SpamAssassin howto by Serge Stepanov.
Postfix+MySQL+Dovecot-POP/IMAP+Amavis howto on Debian Lenny by Christoph Haas.
Postfix+MySQL+Courier-IMAP+Amavis howto by Martin List-Petersen.
Postfix+MySQL+Courier+SpamAssassin+Clamav+Amavisd-new+SASL+Maildrop+Squirrelmail howto by Genco Yilmaz. Uses the postfixmanager user management tool.

Miscellaneous

Multiple Postfix instances howto by Derrick Webber.
RedHat 7.3 laptop howto by Mark Frazer.
Postfix Howtos by Ralf Hildebrandt.
Postfix Howtos by Matthias Andree.

General Email/System Administration

Fixing common DNS problems (bind8nt.meiway.com)
Simplifying Mailer Daemons and Associated Tools by Chuck S. Mead, Jr.
Configuring large-scale UNIX/Linux servers (www.kegel.com)