Commit 1390e05e authored by jabba-jedi's avatar jabba-jedi
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This document will take you through the steps of setting up a basic Postfix mail
server with IMAP authentication on Ubuntu, to be used with [incoming email](incoming_email.md).
The instructions make the assumption that you will be using the email address `incoming@gitlab.example.com`, that is, username `incoming` on host `gitlab.example.com`. Don't forget to change it to your actual host when executing the example code snippets.
The instructions make the assumption that you are using the email address `incoming@gitlab.example.com`, that is, username `incoming` on host `gitlab.example.com`. Don't forget to change it to your actual host when executing the example code snippets.
## Configure your server firewall
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## Configure Postfix to use Maildir-style mailboxes
Courier, which we will install later to add IMAP authentication, requires mailboxes to have the Maildir format, rather than mbox.
Courier, which we install later to add IMAP authentication, requires mailboxes to have the Maildir format, rather than mbox.
1. Configure Postfix to use Maildir-style mailboxes:
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imapd start
```
1. The `courier-authdaemon` isn't started after installation. Without it, IMAP authentication will fail:
1. The `courier-authdaemon` isn't started after installation. Without it, IMAP authentication fails:
```shell
sudo service courier-authdaemon start
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1. Let Postfix know about the IPs that it should consider part of the LAN:
We'll assume `192.168.1.0/24` is your local LAN. You can safely skip this step if you don't have other machines in the same local network.
Let's assume `192.168.1.0/24` is your local LAN. You can safely skip this step if you don't have other machines in the same local network.
```shell
sudo postconf -e "mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8, 192.168.1.0/24"
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