Postfix Documentation, Howtos and FAQs
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The following documents are distributed with the Postfix source code.- Overview. A summary of what Postfix is all about.
- Anatomy. A tour through the Postfix mail system.
- Configuration. Postfix configuration, basic and advanced.
Postfix Howtos and FAQs
General- FAQ. Quick answers to common questions. Also distributed with Postfix source code.
- Red Hat Postfix FAQ (this document appears to be no longer maintained)
- Using Postfix: A basic guide on configuring and installing the Postfix mail server ( backup copy )
- Un pinguino per postino (Italian Postfix howto) by Tommaso DI Donato.
- Guru Labs class GL275 covers Postfix, email theory, DNS, SMTP Auth, STARTTLS, SpamAssassin, POP3/IMAP4 daemons, and Webmail with Squirrelmail.
- Exporting MS Exchange 5.5 Users to Postfix describes how to make a Postfix 2.x "front end" MTA relay mail only for valid recipients.
- Postfix SASL Authentication and TLS howto by Patrick Koetter.
- Postfix SASL + TLS + OpenBSD howto by Jeffrey Posluns.
- Postfix SMTP Authentication howto by Devin L. Ganger.
- Postfix + SASL howto, useful for Mandrake and other systems.
- Cyrus+SASL howto by Haim R. Dimermanas.
- Postfix+SASL+OpenSSL howto for Solaris 8 by Andy Barclay.
- Postfix Anti-UCE Cheat-Sheet by Jim Seymour.
- Postfix UCE/anti-spam guide by Jeffrey Posluns.
- My Understanding Of How UCE Actually Works by Meng Wong.
- UCE and other howtos by Ralf Hildebrandt.
- Header/body junk mail patterns by Jesus Climent.
- MAC OS X howto for using Postfix with the (ugh) UW IMAP server.
- RedHat 7.1 + Postfix + Courier Maildrop + Courier IMAP howto by Robin Whittle.
- Cyrus+SASL howto by Haim R. Dimermanas.
- Postfix+Cyrus+Web-cyradm howto by Luc de Louw.
- Postfix+LDAP+Courier-IMAP howto by Jeroen Vriesman.
- Postfix+MySQL+Courier-IMAP+Amavis howto by Martin List-Petersen.
- Postfix+MySQL+Courier-IMAP howto by Mischa Peters.
- Postfix+MySQL+Courier-IMAP howto by Kirby Menzel and Lucas Peet.
- 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.
- Virtual+mysql howto by Daniel V. Pedersen.
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)
- HA mail system tutorial by Damir Horvat.