Commit 98c689d9 authored by Drew Blessing's avatar Drew Blessing

Update mailroom/postfix documentation [ci skip]

parent 33ccee23
......@@ -74,10 +74,11 @@ To set up a basic Postfix mail server with IMAP access on Ubuntu, follow [these
As mentioned, the part after `+` in the address is ignored, and any email sent here will end up in the mailbox for `incoming@gitlab.example.com`/`gitlab-incoming@gmail.com`.
1. Reconfigure GitLab for the changes to take effect:
1. Reconfigure GitLab and restart mailroom for the changes to take effect:
```sh
sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure
sudo gitlab-ctl restart mailroom
```
1. Verify that everything is configured correctly:
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......@@ -84,7 +84,12 @@ The instructions make the assumption that you will be using the email address `i
quit
```
(Note: The `.` is a literal period on its own line)
_**Note:** The `.` is a literal period on its own line._
_**Note:** If you receive an error after entering `rcpt to: incoming@localhost`
then your Postfix `my_network` configuration is not correct. The error will
say 'Temporary lookup failure'. See
[Configure Postfix to receive email from the Internet](#configure-postfix-to-receive-email-from-the-internet)._
1. Check if the `incoming` user received the email:
......@@ -131,7 +136,7 @@ Courier, which we will install later to add IMAP authentication, requires mailbo
1. Test the new setup:
1. Follow steps 1 and 2 of _[Test the out-of-the-box setup](#test-the-out-of-the-box-setup)_.
2. Check if the `incoming` user received the email:
1. Check if the `incoming` user received the email:
```sh
su - incoming
......@@ -152,6 +157,12 @@ Courier, which we will install later to add IMAP authentication, requires mailbo
q
```
_**Note:** If `mail` returns an error `Maildir: Is a directory` then your
version of `mail` doesn't support Maildir style mailboxes. Install
`heirloom-mailx` by running `sudo apt-get install heirloom-mailx`. Then,
try the above steps again, substituting `heirloom-mailx` for the `mail`
command._
1. Log out of the `incoming` account and go back to being `root`:
```sh
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