| locodir-user | Hi anybody home? | 16:00 |
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| czajkowski | locodir-user: hi | 16:01 |
| locodir-user | Hi Im a noob looking for some help with ubuntu server setup. | 16:02 |
| locodir-user | How do I go about looking for advice? | 16:02 |
| czajkowski | locodir-user: for server stuff you're better of asking in #ubuntu-server | 16:03 |
| locodir-user | I did and asked question but no responses | 16:03 |
| czajkowski | locodir-user: busy channel | 16:04 |
| czajkowski | locodir-user: or the main channel #ubuntu | 16:04 |
| locodir-user | thanks but is there anyone local I can talk to just to get me going. Ive made some progress by myself. | 16:05 |
| tdr112 | locodir-user: i can help with some server questions | 16:05 |
| locodir-user | tdr112: thanks I got some specific serup questions which should be easy enough | 16:06 |
| locodir-user | Can I tell you the setup? | 16:07 |
| tdr112 | yep | 16:07 |
| tdr112 | ask away | 16:08 |
| tdr112 | i am doing other things too so wait for an answer | 16:08 |
| locodir-user | OK its a small windows workgroup used for training ECDL students. | 16:08 |
| locodir-user | I want to set up a Primary Domain Controller via samba (already working - kinda) and an email server which is my sticking point. | 16:09 |
| locodir-user | The lan never sees the internet - and never will . I want to set up postfix to work with Outlook on the students machines. | 16:11 |
| tdr112 | ok | 16:11 |
| locodir-user | I dont need a print server as the printers are network models already. | 16:11 |
| locodir-user | I got shares working so students can share files. | 16:12 |
| slashtommy | what's your postfix problem? | 16:12 |
| locodir-user | Mainly getting the domain names accepted | 16:13 |
| locodir-user | The documentation assumes I am connecting to the internet to read real MX records. | 16:13 |
| slashtommy | have you an entry in /etc/hosts on the server? | 16:13 |
| slashtommy | postfix will not need to lookup the mx, provided that it knows it is the server | 16:14 |
| locodir-user | I'm quite weak in this area so I am slavishly following the documentation] | 16:14 |
| slashtommy | what's in /etc/mailname | 16:14 |
| locodir-user | Yes but I can get to the point of sending emails to mbox and then to Maildir ok | 16:15 |
| locodir-user | Hang on I'll look | 16:15 |
| slashtommy | then you have done it | 16:17 |
| slashtommy | you realise that postfix does not provide imap/pop3? | 16:17 |
| slashtommy | you will need to install something like dovecot | 16:17 |
| locodir-user | OK mailname is = heritage.net | 16:19 |
| slashtommy | before you change anything, as i understand it you can send emails using SMTP and they go to the destination user's mailbox? | 16:20 |
| locodir-user | yes | 16:20 |
| slashtommy | so it works | 16:21 |
| locodir-user | I installed courier-pop | 16:21 |
| slashtommy | your postfix is fine | 16:21 |
| slashtommy | ok, i would have suggested dovecot - always got on better with that | 16:21 |
| locodir-user | ok getting past the next step is where im stuck | 16:22 |
| locodir-user | installed courier imap | 16:22 |
| locodir-user | OK I'll take off courier if it will help | 16:23 |
| slashtommy | i'm afraid i have no experience with courier imap | 16:23 |
| locodir-user | so dovecot then | 16:23 |
| locodir-user | I want the students to do ll the ECDL stuff which would mean imap | 16:24 |
| slashtommy | imap is fine | 16:25 |
| locodir-user | BW I gor apache going - a breeze | 16:25 |
| locodir-user | I want the teacher to be able to administer the email system. She will need a very simple interface. GUI of possible | 16:27 |
| slashtommy | to administer postfix and the imap daemon? | 16:27 |
| locodir-user | I'll go off and install dovecot and read up about it and come back | 16:27 |
| locodir-user | yes to administer the thing. I just want to set it up. When students rotate through the course we andt to purge the account and start again with a new account. | 16:29 |
| slashtommy | if you want to return the server to the original state, maybe you want to store a disk image | 16:33 |
| locodir-user | OK but tellme what can dovecot do that courier cannot? | 16:34 |
| slashtommy | i recommend dovecot over courier for the same reason why i would recommend postfix over sendmail | 16:35 |
| locodir-user | BTW the server i'm using is just an old thing made up from spare parts. using Putty from win xp to control it. | 16:35 |
| locodir-user | I dont care as it is a training machine for me. The actual server will be set up when i get my knowledge up. | 16:36 |
| slashtommy | dovecot is ime far easier to work with | 16:37 |
| locodir-user | OK. Well I'm out of time for the moment. Can I come back later when I got dovecot installed. | 16:38 |
| ebel | there's a web gui for managing postfix addresses i think | 16:39 |
| ebel | thought that's mostly for doing things like adding new aliases, rather than the whole imap/postfix/etc stack | 16:39 |
| ebel | (i.e. i dunno if it'll remove the actual emails etc) | 16:39 |
| locodir-user | Ooh that is somthing I will need. Can it be run from windows. the teacher does not know linux and has never used command line. | 16:40 |
| locodir-user | The teacher will just want to add new accounts and delete old ones. Maybe not even delete old ones as I can do that myself occasionally. | 16:41 |
| ebel | http://postfixadmin.sourceforge.net/ look at this? | 16:45 |
| ebel | should work over the web | 16:45 |
| locodir-user | Thanks ebel I will check it out. I gotta go. Thanks everyone. I'll be back again with a proper irc client later to continue the adventure. | 16:48 |
| locodir-user | All the best. | 16:48 |
| ebel | No problem. Drop in any time, if you have questions | 16:48 |
| locodir-user | Thanks bye. | 16:49 |
| airurando | good evening | 20:45 |
| tdr112 | hey | 20:58 |
| airurando | hi tdr112 | 21:16 |
| airurando | sorry about that | 21:16 |
| airurando | I managed to disable unity while messing with compiz settings. | 21:17 |
| airurando | funny when you are confronted with a blank screen | 21:17 |
| ubu-stu | How do you create a samba share so the webmaster can own the website but other domain users cannot see it. | 23:14 |
| ubu-stu | The web guy will be using windows | 23:14 |
| czajkowski | davem_: might know but he's not here | 23:40 |
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