Installing Courier POP3 and IMAP services with MySql backend
This tutorial assumes you already have Postfix installed with MySql backend as described in this tutorial: Installing Postfix with MySql backend and TLS
1. Install required packages
apt-get install courier-authdaemon courier-authlib-mysql courier-pop courier-pop-ssl courier-imap courier-imap-ssl
Installing Postfix with MySql backend and TLS
In this tutorial we'll install a ready to use Postfix mail server with MySql backend for virtual users. Notice that this tutorial only covers installing the SMTP server (not POP3 and IMAP). Click here for a tutorial on installing Courier POP3 and IMAp services.
Once installed and configured, you can easily create your own admin system to modifiy the domains and users because the table structure is very simple.
This tutorial has been tested on Debian etch and lenny
1. Install the Postfix mail server, MySql server and other required packages
apt-get install postfix postfix-mysql sasl2-bin libsasl2-modules mysql-client mysql-server libpam-mysql
Installing PowerDNS on etch/lenny
The PowerDNS Nameserver is a modern, advanced and high performance authoritative-only nameserver. It is written from scratch and conforms to all relevant DNS standards documents. Furthermore, PowerDNS interfaces with almost any database.
This tutorial has been tested and is working on Debian etch and lenny
1. Install the PowerDNS server and MySql backend using apt
apt-get install pdns-server pdns-backend-mysql
Pure-FTPd with MySQL backend
Pure-FTPd is a free, secure, production-quality and standard-conformant FTP server. It doesn't provide useless bells and whistles, but focuses on efficiency and ease of use. It provides simple answers to common needs, plus unique useful features for personal users as well as hosting providers.
In this tutorial we'll install Pure-FTPd with MySQL backend.
Install Pure-FTPd with mysql backend
apt-get install pure-ftpd-mysql
Install Lighttpd web server with PHP5 support using MySQL backend
Lighttpd is a web server which is designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant, and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments. Its low memory footprint (compared to other web servers), light CPU load and its speed goals make lighttpd suitable for servers that are suffering load problems, or for serving static media separately from dynamic content. lighttpd is free software / open source, and is distributed under the BSD license.
In this tutorial you will be guided through the installation process and to configure the web server to use MySQL backend.
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