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Paweł Widera, 06/14/2012 07:24 PM
The default e-mail changed.

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= Email Configuration =
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== Receiving Emails: IMAP Configuration ==
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In addition to the user account for ''procksi'' on the ProCKSI cluster, there is another ''procksi'' account at the School of Computer Science, which is mainly used for receiving emails. 
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'''NOTE''': Having a separate School of Computer Science account for ''procksi'' was necessary before having a dedicated ProCKSI cluster. The IMAM/POP functionality should be entirely transferred to the ProCKSI master node at some point.
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 ||Home server    || marian.cs.nott.ac.uk
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 ||User name      || procksi
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 ||Password       || see [wiki:secretAuthentication Authentication]
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 ||IMAP server    || marian.cs.nott.ac.uk
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 ||Email address  || procksi@cs.nott.ac.uk
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== Sending Emails: SMPT Configuration ==
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The ProCKSI server component send emails to the user for several occasions. In order to make sure that they are delivered correctly even when the internet is temporarily not available, a local SMTP server (''postfix'') is set up. This will accept emails from the private network only, store them temporarily (if necessary), and forward them to an email relay server.
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Additionally, all system mails sent by the master and slave nodes shall be forwared to the procksi email account in order to make all available at one point.
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Make sure that ''postfix'' is the default mailing software (and not ''sendmail''!).
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{{{
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system-switch-mail -activate postfix
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}}}
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Make the following changes to the ''postfix ''configuration file (''/etc/postfix/main.cf''):
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{{{
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myhostname = procksi.cs.nott.ac.uk
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mydomain = cs.nott.ac.uk
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myorigin = $mydomai
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inet_interfaces = all
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mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost
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mynetworks_style = subnet
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virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
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relayhost = mail.cs.nott.ac.uk
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}}}
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Create or modify ''/etc/postfix/virtual'':
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{{{
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postmaster  postmaster@localhost
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adm         root@localhost
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root        admin@procksi.net
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procksi     admin@procksi.net
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}}}
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Generate the corresponding database file (''virtual.db''):
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{{{
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postmap /etc/postfix/virtual
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}}}
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Make sure that the postfix daemon is running, and that it will start at boot time:
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{{{
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/sbin/service postfix start
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/sbin/chkconfig --add postfix
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/sbin/chkconfig postfix on
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}}}
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Make sure that the firewall is not open for port 25 or port 28!
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Check that the STMTP server in ''/home/procksi/latest/conf/main.ini'' is set correctly set to ''master01.procksi.local''