VExim

Configuring a fully featured Exim mail server on Centos 4.x

Exim + VExim + ClamAV + Spamassassin + Courier-IMAP + Squirrelmail + Mailman

Index

Software installation
ClamAV + SpamAssassin
Exim
VExim
Courier-IMAP
Squirrelmail
Mailman
References

Software installation

Install the required packages

yum install exim  clamd squirrelmail httpd mod_ssl mailman spamassassin mysql mysql-server php-mysql

Remove sendmail/postfix

yum remove sendmail postfix

Configure the services to start on boot

for daemon in spamassassin clamd httpd mysqld
do
  chkconfig $daemon on
  service $daemon start
done

ClamAV + SpamAssassin

Exim

Rebuild Exim for Mysql support

wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4.3/os/SRPMS/exim-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.src.rpm
rpm -ivh exim-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.src.rpm
cd rpm/SOURCES/

Edited exim-4.43-config.patch for mysql support

$ diff exim-4.43-config.patch exim-4.43-config.patch.mysql 
61c61
< @@ -253,16 +253,18 @@
---
> @@ -253,16 +253,19 @@
75,76c75,78
< +LOOKUP_LIBS=-lldap -llber
<  # LOOKUP_MYSQL=yes
---
> +LOOKUP_LIBS=-lldap -llber -L/usr/lib64/mysql -lmysqlclient
> +LOOKUP_INCLUDE=-I/usr/include/mysql
> -# LOOKUP_MYSQL=yes
> +LOOKUP_MYSQL=yes

Set the mysql root password

mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'

Create the VExim database

mysqladmin -u root -p create vexim

Create the VExim user and mail repository

useradd vexim -u 90 -d /home/vexim -s /sbin/nologin -m

cd /usr/src
wget http://silverwraith.com/vexim/vexim2.2RC1.tar.gz
tar xvzf /usr/src/vexim2.2RC1.tar.gz

SITEADMINPASS=<password>
VEXIMPASS=<randompass>

sed -i -e "s#uid              smallint(5)   unsigned  NOT NULL  default 'CHANGE',#uid              smallint(5)   unsigned  NOT NULL  default '90',#" vexim2/setup/mysql.sql

sed -i -e "s#gid              smallint(5)   unsigned  NOT NULL  default 'CHANGE',#gid              smallint(5)   unsigned  NOT NULL  default '90',#" vexim2/setup/mysql.sql

sed -i -e "s#IDENTIFIED BY 'CHANGE';#IDENTIFIED BY '$VEXIMPASS';#" vexim2/setup/mysql.sql

sed -i -e "s#CHANGE#$SITEADMINPASS#" vexim2/setup/mysql.sql
sed -i -e "s#$1$12345678$2lQK5REWxaFyGz.p/dos3/#<somecrypt>#" vexim2/setup/mysql.sql

mysql -uroot -p vexim < vexim2/setup/mysql.sql

sed -e "s#$sqlpass = \"CHANGE\";#$sqlpass = \"$VEXIMPASS\";#" vexim2/vexim/config/variables.php

VExim Exim Configs

cp vexim2/docs/configure /etc/exim/exim.conf
cp vexim2/docs/vexim* /etc/exim

ClamAV Integration

sed -i -e "s%#LocalSocket /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock%LocalSocket /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock%" /etc/clamd.conf
sed -i -e "s%TCPSocket 3310%#TCPSocket 3310%" /etc/clamd.conf
service clamd restart

sed -e "s#clamd:/var/run/clamav/clamd#clamd:/var/run/clamav/clamd.sock#" /etc/exim/exim.conf

sed -i -e "s#/usr/local/mailman#/var/lib/mailman#" /etc/exim/exim.conf

Edit your IP

MY_IP = CHANGE

sed -i -e "s#/tmp/mysql.sock#/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock#" /etc/exim/exim.conf 

sed -i -e "s%exim_user = mailnull%#exim_user = mailnull%" /etc/exim/exim.conf
sed -i -e "s%exim_group = mail%#exim_group = mail%" /etc/exim/exim.conf

Remove all references from exim.conf to mailnull and mail groups. Change mailman's group/user to mailman

  user = mailnull
  group = mail

/var/www/html/vexim/config/variables.php

  $mailroot = "/usr/local/mail/";

  $mailmanroot = "http://www.EXAMPLE.com/mailman";

Change all references in /etc/exim/exim.conf of /usr/local/etc/ to /etc/

Courier-IMAP

Building Courier-Imap RPMS

wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/courier/courier-authlib-0.58.tar.bz2
wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/courier/courier-0.53.1.tar.bz2

mkdir $HOME/rpm $HOME/rpm/SOURCES $HOME/rpm/SPECS $HOME/rpm/BUILD $HOME/rpm/SRPMS $HOME/rpm/RPMS $HOME/rpm/RPMS/i386

echo "%_topdir    $HOME/rpm" >> $HOME/.rpmmacros

rpmbuild -ta courier-authlib-0.58.tar.bz2
su
rpm -Uvh rpm/RPMS/i386/courier-authlib-0.58-1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh rpm/RPMS/i386/courier-authlib-userdb-0.58-1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh rpm/RPMS/i386/courier-authlib-devel-0.58-1.i386.rpm
exit

mv courier-0.51.0.tar.bz2 rpm/SOURCES/
tar -xvjf rpm/SOURCES/courier-0.51.0.tar.bz2 *courier.spec
perl -pi -e "s#_unpackaged_files_terminate_build1#_unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0#" courier-0.51.0/courier.spec
mv courier-0.51.0/courier.spec rpm/SPECS
rmdir courier-0.51.0

rpmbuild -bb --without fax --without ldap rpm/SPECS/courier.spec

cd $HOME/rpm/RPMS/i386
su
rpm -Uvh courier-0*.rpm courier-imapd-0*.rpm courier-pop3d-0*.rpm
exit

* We are going to be performing configuration for both IMAP and POP3

below. If you'd like to not run one of these two daemons, you can simply ignore the steps for its configuration file.

cd /etc/authlib
vi authdaemonrc

Now, replace the following lines:
Replace: authmodulelist="authuserdb authpam authpgsql authldap authmysql authcustom authpipe"
with: authmodulelist="authmysql"

Now create a file in that directory called authmysqlrc, with the
cat >authmysqlrc <<EOF
MYSQL_SERVER localhost
MYSQL_USERNAME vexim
MYSQL_PASSWORD change
MYSQL_SOCKET /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
MYSQL_PORT 3306
MYSQL_OPT 0
MYSQL_DATABASE vexim
MYSQL_USER_TABLE users
MYSQL_CRYPT_PWFIELD crypt
MYSQL_UID_FIELD uid
MYSQL_GID_FIELD gid
MYSQL_LOGIN_FIELD username
MYSQL_HOME_FIELD pop
MYSQL_NAME_FIELD realname
EOF

chkconfig --add courier
chkconfig --add courier-authlib

service courier restart
service courier-authlib restart

Squirrelmail

Mailman

References

http://silverwraith.com/vexim/

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VExim

Software installation

ClamAV + SpamAssassin

Exim

VExim

Courier-IMAP

Squirrelmail

Mailman

References