postfix-dovecot-cookbook

Chef cookbook example to install and configure a mail server using Postfix, Dovecot, PostfixAdmin and SpamAssassin.

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Chef cookbook example to install and configure a mail server using Postfix, Dovecot, PostfixAdmin and SpamAssassin.

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posttool·Oct 30, 2014

I recently used https://github.com/onddo/postfix-dovecot-cookbook with success and ease! Has anyone else? I wouldn't mind sharing my setup project if interested.

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exratione·Nov 17, 2013

I moved off Abrahamsen's recipe 18 months ago or so for no good reason other than I like to make work for myself: it had been working just fine for me. You set it up on a cloud server, take an image, and that's that - you have a working base from which you can restore your mail server if anything bad should happen. Last year I put up the Dovecot / Postfix / Postfix Admin / Horde recipe I used in place of Abrahamsen's, and judging by the feedback it's helped a great many people: https://www.exratione.com/2012/05/a-mailserver-on-ubuntu-120... (You can replace Horde with Roundcube or any other webmail package you care to put in place if you don't like it). The market here is for learning, not necessarily for setting up. If you don't know how to set up a mail server, it is well worth walking through one of these as it will teach the lay of th

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e land. Then you can later move to a packaged solution, as you'll be knowledgeable enough to troubleshoot it when it breaks. I was intending to put together a Chef cookbook for my recipe, but looking at what's already out there it seems like it would duplicate some good ones that already exist. e.g.: https://github.com/onddo/postfix-dovecot-cookbook I think that running your own mail server is certainly worth the initial effort; once you have the thing set up it ticks along with very little upkeep needed.

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