Re: Plan to build a new mailguard server

Ah, thanks for the clarification. The pho setup depends on building all of
the components. In my case, I'm setting up a standalone mailguard server,
which another postfix server will use as a transport for those
domains/users needing spam/virus handling.

Regards,

Joe

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:46 PM, David Newman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 7/29/15 1:20 PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
>
> > The one thing I didn't find was how
> > to get an initial maia user into the maia database to begin with.
> > Chicken and egg problem.
>
> It's not. In the pho-postfix instructions, you first create one or more
> virtual email accounts in postfixadmin before Maia setup occurs. Maia
> then calls an existing account with a MySQL query as database user
> 'vscan,' which is common to Dovecot and Maia.
>
> Also, the docs say something about the need to define new domains in
> Maia (though not necessarily new users) separately from when they're set
> up in postfixadmin. Email domains, users, and aliases should all exist
> before we get to Maia setup.
>
> Your CentOS setup may differ on a lot of details, but the key point is
> that a virtual email account exists (one usable by postfix and dovecot2)
> _before_ configuring Maia.
>
> dn
>
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