Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • Yum Install Dovecot Mariadb-Server Dovecot-Mysql Mariadb

    Uploaded by

    admir
    24 views4 pages
    The document summarizes setting up a MariaDB database to store user and domain information for a mail server. It provides instructions to install MariaDB, create the necessary database and tables, add sample domain, user and alias data, and test that the data is stored correctly. Key steps include creating tables for domains, users, and aliases; inserting sample domain, user and alias records; and verifying the data by querying the tables.

    Original Description:

    Original Title

    DovecotMariaDB1

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The document summarizes setting up a MariaDB database to store user and domain information for a mail server. It provides instructions to install MariaDB, create the necessary database and tables, add sample domain, user and alias data, and test that the data is stored correctly. Key steps include creating tables for domains, users, and aliases; inserting sample domain, user and alias records; and verifying the data by querying the tables.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    Download as pdf or txt
    24 views4 pages

    Yum Install Dovecot Mariadb-Server Dovecot-Mysql Mariadb

    Uploaded by

    admir
    The document summarizes setting up a MariaDB database to store user and domain information for a mail server. It provides instructions to install MariaDB, create the necessary database and tables, add sample domain, user and alias data, and test that the data is stored correctly. Key steps include creating tables for domains, users, and aliases; inserting sample domain, user and alias records; and verifying the data by querying the tables.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 4

    1.

    yum install dovecot mariadb-server dovecot-mysql

    MariaDB

    In this section you will set up a MariaDB database to store virtual domains, users and passwords.
    Dovecot and Postfix require this data.

    Creating the Database and Tables


    Follow the steps below to create the database tables for virtual users, domains and aliases:
    1. Ensure the MariaDb server is running and enabled to start automatically on reboot:
    sudo systemctl start mariadb
    sudo systemctl enable mariadb

    2. Use the mysql_secure_installation tool to configure additional security options. This tool
    will ask if you want to set a new password for the MySQL root user, but you can skip that
    step:
    sudo mysql_secure_installation

    Answer Y at the following prompts:


     Remove anonymous users?
     Disallow root login remotely?
     Remove test database and access to it?
     Reload privilege tables now?
    3. Create a new database:
    sudo mysqladmin -u root -p create mailserver

    4. Log in to MySQL:
    sudo mysql -u root -p

    5. Create the MySQL user and grant the new user permissions over the database. Replace
    mailuserpass with a secure password:
    GRANT SELECT ON mailserver.* TO 'mailuser'@'127.0.0.1' IDENTIFIED BY
    'mailuserpass';

    6. Flush the MySQL privileges to apply the change:


    FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

    7. Switch to the new mailsever database:


    USE mailserver;
    8. Create a table for the domains that will receive mail on the Linode:
    CREATE TABLE `virtual_domains` (
    `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
    `name` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
    ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

    9. Create a table for all of the email addresses and passwords:


    CREATE TABLE `virtual_users` (
    `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
    `domain_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
    `password` varchar(106) NOT NULL,
    `email` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
    UNIQUE KEY `email` (`email`),
    FOREIGN KEY (domain_id) REFERENCES virtual_domains(id) ON DELETE CASCADE
    ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

    10. Create a table for the email aliases:


    CREATE TABLE `virtual_aliases` (
    `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
    `domain_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
    `source` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
    `destination` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
    FOREIGN KEY (domain_id) REFERENCES virtual_domains(id) ON DELETE CASCADE
    ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

    Adding Data
    You can now add data to the database and tables that were created in the previous section.
    1. Add the domains to the virtual_domains table. Replace the values for example.com
    and hostname with your own settings:
    INSERT INTO `mailserver`.`virtual_domains`
    (`id` ,`name`)
    VALUES
    ('1', 'example.com'),
    ('2', 'hostname.example.com'),
    ('3', 'hostname'),
    ('4', 'localhost.example.com');

    Note
    Note which id corresponds to which domain, the id value is necessary for the
    next two steps.

    2. Add email addresses to the virtual_users table. The domain_id value references the
    virtual_domain table’s id value. Replace the email address values with the addresses
    that you wish to configure on the mailserver. Replace the password values with strong
    passwords.
    INSERT INTO `mailserver`.`virtual_users`
    (`id`, `domain_id`, `password` , `email`)
    VALUES
    ('1', '1', ENCRYPT('password', CONCAT('$6$', SUBSTRING(SHA(RAND()), -
    16))), '[email protected]'),
    ('2', '1', ENCRYPT('password', CONCAT('$6$', SUBSTRING(SHA(RAND()), -
    16))), '[email protected]');

    3. An email alias will forward all email from one email address to another. To set up an email
    alias, add it to the virtual_aliases table:
    INSERT INTO `mailserver`.`virtual_aliases`
    (`id`, `domain_id`, `source`, `destination`)
    VALUES
    ('1', '1', '[email protected]', '[email protected]');

    Testing
    In the previous section, data was added to the MySQL mailserver database. The steps below
    will test that the data has been stored and can be retrieved.
    1. Log in to MySQL:
    sudo mysql -u root -p

    2. Check the contents of the virtual_domains table:


    SELECT * FROM mailserver.virtual_domains;

    3. Verify that the output displays the domains you add to the virtual_domains table:

    +----+-----------------------+
    | id | name |
    +----+-----------------------+
    | 1 | example.com |
    | 2 | hostname.example.com |
    | 3 | hostname |
    | 4 | localhost.example.com |
    +----+-----------------------+
    4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

    4. Check the virtual_users table:


    SELECT * FROM mailserver.virtual_users;

    5. Verify that the output displays the email addresses you added to the virutal_users
    table. Your hashed passwords will appear longer than they are displayed below:

    +----+-----------+-------------------------------------
    +--------------------+
    | id | domain_id | password | email
    |
    +----+-----------+-------------------------------------
    +--------------------+
    | 1 | 1 | $6$574ef443973a5529c20616ab7c6828f7 |
    [email protected] |
    | 2 | 1 | $6$030fa94bcfc6554023a9aad90a8c9ca1 |
    [email protected] |
    +----+-----------+-------------------------------------
    +--------------------+
    2 rows in set (0.01 sec)

    6. Check the virtual_aliases table:


    SELECT * FROM mailserver.virtual_aliases;

    7. Verify that the output displays the aliases you added to the virtual_aliases table:

    +----+-----------+-------------------+--------------------+
    | id | domain_id | source | destination |
    +----+-----------+-------------------+--------------------+
    | 1 | 1 | [email protected] | [email protected] |
    +----+-----------+-------------------+--------------------+
    1 row in set (0.00 sec)

    8. If all the desired data displays as expected, exit MySQL:


    exit

    You might also like