Had an existing Postfix configurationup and running. Notes for bringing up the same available at https://www.sandeeprao.net/configuring-secure-mail-server-using-postfix-with-dovecot-spamassasin-postgrey-and-opendkim/ As I could add more vCPU and RAM to the VM, thought of adding anti-virus check on receipt of mails. As I had already configured amavis + spamassassin it was pretty straight forward, install the required clamav packages along…
Month: January 2020
Install KVM
Though the steps are widely documented on the net, I tend to forget one step and hence adding it here. #apt install qemu-kvm libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon-system bridge-utils virtinst libvirt-daemon virt-manager -y Make the default network for KVM Vms autostarted across reboots #virsh net-start default #virsh net-autostart default Offload the mechanism of “virtio-net” improves the performance of…
Configuring secure mail server using Postfix with Dovecot, Amavis, Spamassasin, Postgrey and OpenDKIM
Prerequisite : https://www.sandeeprao.net/preparing-for-configuring-secure-mail-server-using-postfix-dovecot-spamassassin-and-opendkim/ Install required packages #apt install -y razor #apt install -y amavisd-new dovecot-core dovecot-imapd dovecot-lmtpd dovecot-mysql dovecot-sieve haveged mailutils mariadb-server opendkim opendkim-tools p7zip postfix postfix-mysql postgrey spamassassin Create require vmail user and group #groupadd -g 5000 vmail #useradd -g vmail -u 5000 vmail -d /var/vmail Create mailbox directory #mkdir -p /var/vmail #chown -R…