Sendmail

Sendmail is the classic mail transfer agent from the Unix world. This article builds upon Mail server.

The goal of this article is to setup Sendmail for local user accounts, without using MySQL or other database, and allowing also the creation of mail-only accounts.

Installation

Install the sendmailAUR, procmailAUR and m4 packages.

Adding users

Create a Linux user for each user that wants to receive email at username@your-domain.com. To add mail-only accounts, that is, users who can get email, but cannot have shell access or login on X, you can add them like this:

# useradd -m -s /usr/bin/nologin username

Configuration

Obtain TLS certificate
Warning: If you deploy TLS, be sure to follow weakdh.org's guide and disable SSLv3 to prevent vulnerabilities. For more information see Server-side TLS.

To obtain a certificate, see OpenSSL#Usage.

sendmail.cf

Create the file /etc/mail/sendmail.mc. You can read all the options for configuring sendmail on the file /usr/share/sendmail-cf/README.

Here is an example using auth over TLS. The example has comments explaing how it works. The comments start with dnl .

Then process it with

# m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

local-host-names

Put your domains on the local-host-names file:

Make sure the domains are also resolved by your file.

access.db

Create the file and put there the base addresses where you want to be able to relay mail. Lets suppose you have a vpn on , and you want to relay mails from any ip in that range:

Then process it with

# makemap hash /etc/mail/access.db < /etc/mail/access

aliases.db

Edit the file and uncomment the line #root: human being here and change it to be like this:

You can add aliases for your usernames there, like:

Then process it with

# newaliases

virtusertable.db

Create your virtusertable file and put there aliases that includes domains (useful if your server is hosting several domains)

/etc/mail/virtusertable
your-username@your-domain.com         your-username
joe@my-other.tk                       joenobody

Then process it with

# makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable.db < /etc/mail/virtusertable

Start on boot

Enable/start the following services. Read Daemons for more datails.

SASL authentication

Add a user to the SASL database for SMTP authentication.

# saslpasswd2 -c your-username

Tips and tricks

Forward all the mail of one domain to certain user

To forward all mail addressed to any user in the my-other.tk domain to your-username@your-domain.com, add to the file:

Do not forget to process it again with 

# makemap hash /etc/mail/virtusertable.db < /etc/mail/virtusertable
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