Packages Required for Virtual Mail System

Submitted by linuxadmin on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 20:44

There are a lot of packages required for this setup. Here are the main ones:

  • Postfix - Mail Transfer Agent (MTA)
  • clamav - Free antivirus for email scanning
  • spamassassin - Spam blocking
  • Amavisd-new - The glue that sticks Postfix and scanning apps together.
  • MySQL - All user accounts and scan settings will be saved here.
  • Dovecot - Local Delivery Agent (LDA), pop3 and imap daemon. Handles everything to do with each individual mail folder.

I installed Amavisd-new from source. There are some packages I just prefer the vanilla flavour of and this howto assumes a vanilla installation. If you go with the distro release, you'll need to use your distro file paths for anything amavis. You can get the vanilla release from http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/#download (This guide assumes version 2.6.4).

You can use the following commands to install all the packages required for this guide.

Web Packages

I have listed these because I used them for Roundcube Webmail and phpMyAdmin (which makes performing any MySQL operations a lot simpler). Both Roundcube Webmail and phpMyAdmin I install from original source into the restricted document root directory for their corresponding virtual host.

# apt-get install apache2-mpm-worker apache2-doc apache2-utils apache2-suexec
# apt-get install php5 php5-cgi php5-common php5-curl php5-gd php5-mysql php5-pspell php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-tidy php5-xsl \
  php5-intl php5-imagick php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-memcache php5-memcached php5-sasl
# apt-get install pure-ftpd-mysql
 
# apt-get install aspell aspell-doc aspell-en aspell-tl

MySQL

# apt-get install mysql-client mysql-server

set mysql root password

Email Packages

# apt-get install postfix postfix-mysql postfix-doc
# apt-get install dovecot-common dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d
# apt-get install clamav
# apt-get install spamassassin pyzor razor

Amavisd-new

These packages are required for amavisd-new to decode email attachments and other things. Say yes to all dependencies.

# apt-get install gzip bzip2 arc cpio lha arj rar unrar zoo pax lzop freeze ripole tnef cabextract libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl \
  libconvert-tnef-perl libio-stringy-perl libarchive-zip-perl libmime-tools-perl libnet-cidr-perl libnet-server-perl \
  libcompress-raw-zlib-perl libmail-dkim-perl libconvert-uulib-perl libberkeleydb-perl libio-multiplex-perl \
  libconvert-binhex-perl libunix-syslog-perl libcrypt-openssl-bignum-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl p7zip p7zip-full rpm2cpio

Install amavisd-new following http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/INSTALL.txt

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