Mail server setup with Exim, MySQL, Cyrus-Imapd, Horde webmail on Centos 5.1

This how to describes the installation and configuration of a mail system on Centos 5.1 with selinux enabled for enhanced security. This system will be able to service HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, TLS, SMTP-AUTH, IMAP, POP3 clients and is virtual enabled allowing more that one domain to be served from the system.

The webmail client imp will provide a feature rich interface with a webmail component, an address book, calendaring, and ability to reset passwords all with a highly configurable preference system to enable users to modify their look and feel as well as the operation of the interface.

The IMAP/POP3 system is the high performance cyrus-imapd system that runs as a sealed unit (mail users are not system users) and utilizes a high end/ performance back end for mail storage. The other cyrus-imapd features include, mail indexing for quick search operations using squat, a notification daemon that can be configured to notify via sms or email, sieve filtering system (auto response, mail filtering, notifications, filing), and built in quota system. This system will use pam_mysql via the SASL (saslauthd) mechanism to authenticate users against the Mysql database back end shared by all the components.

The exim system will be configured to enable users relay mail using TLS secured SMTP-AUTH, using the same database backend that is shared by all the components. Address verification will take place using SQL queries to the mysql backend before any mail is accepted for delivery to the cyrus-imapd mail store. Anti-virus checks are integrated into this system with the use of clamav via a Unix domain socket. Spam checks are also run at smtp time via a socket connection to the spamd spamassasin system messages scoring over 6 are automatically rejected with out being spooled to the system.

The mysql database will store the user authentication information encrypted using md5-hex as well as other information for the other webmail components.

This system is designed for high performance and security, cutting down on open ports and prefering to use unix domain sockets and running selinux in enforcing mode.

User account management takes place via the horde web interface allowing the admin easy access to add and remove accounts or to manage passwords, it is also possible to interact directly with the database table and make alterations there.

For the purpose of keeping this howto precise i will not take you through the actually installation of the Centos 5.1 system i will assume that you have a bare bones install, a kickstart to help you get a bare bones install is can be downloaded here

For this tutorial i will be using the static IP address 192.168.1.4 and the hostname mail.home.topdog-software.com with a domain of home.topdog-software.com, please feel free to make alterations to suite your environment. The working directory will be /usr/local/src all packages to be downloaded should be downloaded and extracted there.

• Update the system.

yum update

• Configure rpmforge repo

rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

• Disable the repo (such that base packages not overwritten) edit /etc/yum.d/rpmforge.repo and set the following option

enabled = 0

yum install httpd php php-mysql php-xml php-imap php-mbstring php-mcrypt \
php-pecl-Fileinfo php-pear-DB php-pear-File php-pear-Log php-pear-Mail-Mime \
php-pear-Auth-SASL php-pear-Date php-pear-HTTP-Request php-pear-Mail php-pear-Net-Sieve \
php-pear-Net-Socket php-pear-Net-SMTP openssl mod_ssl -y

yum install exim system-switch-mail -y

yum install mysql mysql-server -y

yum install horde imp-h3 ingo-h3 turba-h3 kronolith-h3 -y
wget ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/passwd/passwd-h3-3.0.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf passwd-h3-3.0.1.tar.gz -C /usr/share/horde
mv /usr/share/horde/passwd-h3-3.0.1 /usr/share/horde/passwd

I will use the Invoca systems source rpm as it is more recent and support many features that the Centos build does not provide.

yum install db4-utils -y
rpm -Uvh http://www.topdog-software.com/oss/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd-perl-2.3.11-3.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://www.topdog-software.com/oss/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd-utils-2.3.11-3.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://www.topdog-software.com/oss/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd-2.3.11-3.i386.rpm

rpm -Uvh http://www.topdog-software.com/oss/pam_mysql/pam_mysql-0.7RC1-1.i386.rpm

yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install clamav clamav-db clamd -y

yum install spamassassin -y

• Enable virtual hosting and create default virtualhost, edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and add at the end

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@home.topdog-software.com
</VirtualHost>

• Create the virtual host for horde webmail add this under the above

<VirtualHost *:80>
        Servername mail.home.topdog-software.com
        DocumentRoot /usr/share/horde
        ErrorLog logs/mail-error_log
        CustomLog logs/mail-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

• Enable horde security settings edit the file /etc/httpd/conf.d/horde.conf and set as below

#Alias /horde /usr/share/horde
<Directory /usr/share/horde>

    Options +FollowSymLinks
    php_admin_flag safe_mode off
    php_admin_flag magic_quotes_runtime off
    php_flag session.use_trans_sid off
    php_flag session.auto_start off
    php_admin_flag file_uploads on
    #php_admin_flag allow_url_fopen on

    php_value post_max_size 20M
    php_value upload_max_filesize 10M

    php_admin_value open_basedir "/usr/share/horde:/usr/share/horde/config:/usr/share/pear:/tmp"
    php_admin_flag register_globals off
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share/horde/config>
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

<DirectoryMatch "^/usr/share/horde/(.*/)?(config|lib|locale|po|scripts|templates)/(.*)?">
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
</DirectoryMatch>

• Increase PHP memory limit edit /etc/php.ini and change to below

memory_limit = 64M

• Enable horde under SSL edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf and add the following to the default virtualhost between the <VirtualHost _default_:443><VirtualHost> tags

Servername mail.home.topdog-software.com:443
DocumentRoot /usr/share/horde

• Switch the MTA to exim

 system-switch-mail (select exim)

• Configure Exim (/etc/exim/exim.conf) to use clamav to scan incoming mail and reject virus infected email and image and pdf spam at smtp time.

av_scanner = clamd:/var/run/clamav/clamd.sock

• Configure the RBL's under acl_check_rcpt:

drop    message       = REJECTED because $sender_host_address is in a black list spamhaus.org
           dnslists      = zen.spamhaus.org

drop    message       = REJECTED because $sender_host_address is in a black list at $dnslist_domain\n$dnslist_text
           dnslists      = bl.spamcop.net

drop    message       = REJECTED because $sender_host_address is in a black list at $dnslist_domain\n$dnslist_text
           dnslists      = dnsbl.sorbs.net

• If you want to reject messages from servers with no reverse dns add this under acl_check_rcpt:, it does have a exception list to which you can add domains where the acl should not be applied and trys to deliver a test message to sending address to verify if the sender is valid.

drop  message   = REJECTED - We don't accept messages from hosts without reverse DNS
        log_message = No reverse DNS
        domains = ! lsearch;/etc/exim/checks_exempt_hosts
        !verify = reverse_host_lookup
        !verify = sender/callout=2m,defer_ok
        !condition =  ${if eq{$sender_verify_failure}{}}

• To reject messages from clients that dont provide a HELO/EHLO add this to acl_check_rcpt:

drop  message  = REFUSED - no HELO/EHLO greeting
        log_message = remote host did not present greeting
        condition = ${if def:sender_helo_name {false}{true}}

• You can rate limit the connections to your server as well add this to acl_check_connect: to do so (read the exim docs on the parameters if you want to fine tune it for your site)

deny ratelimit = 250 / 15m / strict
       message = You can only send $sender_rate per $sender_rate_period
       log_message = RATE: $sender_rate/$sender_rate_period (max $sender_rate_limit)

accept

• Stop rogue spam bots from trashing your machine

smtp_accept_max_nonmail = 30
smtp_max_unknown_commands = 1

• Don't advertise pipelining

pipelining_advertise_hosts = 

• Enable Spamassassin checks

spamd_address = /var/run/spamassassin/spamd.sock

• Reject all messages with score above 6 at smtp time. (acl_check_data)

accept  condition  = ${if >={$message_size}{100000} {1}}
        add_header = X-Spam-Note: SpamAssassin run bypassed due to message size

  warn    spam       = nobody/defer_ok
        add_header = X-Spam-Flag: YES

  accept  condition  = ${if !def:spam_score_int {1}}
        add_header = X-Spam-Note: SpamAssassin invocation failed

  warn    add_header = X-Spam-Score: $spam_score ($spam_bar)\n\
#       X-Spam-Report: $spam_report

  drop    condition = ${if >{$spam_score_int}{60} {1}}
        message   = Your message scored $spam_score SpamAssassin point. Report follows:\n\
        $spam_report

• Enable access to Mysql database

hide mysql_servers = localhost/horde/horde/hordepassword

• Modify the local delivery router to deliver to cyrus but verify the email address of user before delivery (in routers section of exim.conf)

localuser:
  driver = accept
  local_parts = ${lookup mysql {SELECT REPLACE(user_uid,'${quote_mysql:@$domain}','') \
         as user FROM horde_users WHERE user_uid='${quote_mysql:$local_part@$domain}'}{$value}}
  transport = local_delivery
  cannot_route_message = Unknown user

• Create a transport to deliver to cyrus via lmtp socket

local_delivery:
  driver = lmtp
  socket = /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp
  batch_max = 50
  user = cyrus

• Add the following to the authentication section of /etc/exim/exim.conf

plain:
  driver = plaintext
  public_name = PLAIN
  server_prompts = :
  server_set_id = $2
  server_condition = ${if saslauthd{{$2}{$3}{pop}}{1}{0}}
  server_advertise_condition = true

login:
  driver = plaintext
  public_name = LOGIN
  server_prompts = "Username:: : Password::"
  server_condition = ${if saslauthd{{$1}{$2}{pop}}{1}{0}}
  server_set_id = $1
  server_advertise_condition = true

Download the full configuration file here

• Disable TCP networking edit /etc/my.cnf and the following in the mysqld section

skip-networking

• Set root password

/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h impi password 'new-password' -p

• Edit the sql file and change the mysql password for the horde user

cp /usr/share/horde/scripts/sql/create.mysql.sql .
vi create.mysql.sql

REPLACE INTO user (host, user, password)
    VALUES (
        'localhost',
        'horde',
-- IMPORTANT: Change this password!
        PASSWORD('hordepassword')
);

• Create the user and populate the horde database

mysql -p < create.mysql.sql

• Create the tables for turba (Address book)

mysql -p horde < /usr/share/horde/turba/scripts/sql/turba_objects.mysql.sql

• Create the tables for kronolith (calendering)

mysql -p horde < /usr/share/horde/kronolith/scripts/sql/kronolith.mysql.sql

• Create horde base configuration /usr/share/horde/config/conf.php

<?php
$conf['debug_level'] = E_ALL;
$conf['max_exec_time'] = 0;
$conf['compress_pages'] = true;
$conf['umask'] = 077;
$conf['use_ssl'] = 2;
$conf['server']['name'] = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
$conf['server']['port'] = $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'];
$conf['session']['name'] = 'Horde';
$conf['session']['use_only_cookies'] = true;
$conf['session']['cache_limiter'] = 'nocache';
$conf['session']['timeout'] = 0;
$conf['cookie']['domain'] = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
$conf['cookie']['path'] = '/';
$conf['sql']['username'] = 'horde';
$conf['sql']['password'] = 'hordepassword';
$conf['sql']['socket'] = '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock';
$conf['sql']['protocol'] = 'unix';
$conf['sql']['database'] = 'horde';
$conf['sql']['charset'] = 'iso-8859-1';
$conf['sql']['phptype'] = 'mysqli';
$conf['auth']['admins'] = array('Administrator', 'andrew@home.topdog-software.com');
$conf['auth']['checkip'] = true;
$conf['auth']['checkbrowser'] = true;
$conf['auth']['alternate_login'] = false;
$conf['auth']['redirect_on_logout'] = false;
$conf['auth']['params']['driverconfig'] = 'horde';
$conf['auth']['params']['table'] = 'horde_users';
$conf['auth']['params']['username_field'] = 'user_uid';
$conf['auth']['params']['password_field'] = 'user_pass';
$conf['auth']['params']['encryption'] = 'md5-hex';
$conf['auth']['params']['show_encryption'] = false;
$conf['auth']['driver'] = 'sql';
$conf['signup']['allow'] = false;
$conf['log']['priority'] = PEAR_LOG_NOTICE;
$conf['log']['ident'] = 'HORDE';
$conf['log']['params'] = array();
$conf['log']['name'] = '/tmp/horde.log';
$conf['log']['params']['append'] = true;
$conf['log']['type'] = 'file';
$conf['log']['enabled'] = true;
$conf['log_accesskeys'] = false;
$conf['prefs']['params']['driverconfig'] = 'horde';
$conf['prefs']['driver'] = 'sql';
$conf['datatree']['params']['driverconfig'] = 'horde';
$conf['datatree']['driver'] = 'sql';
$conf['group']['driver'] = 'datatree';
$conf['cache']['default_lifetime'] = 1800;
$conf['cache']['params']['dir'] = Horde::getTempDir();
$conf['cache']['params']['gc'] = 86400;
$conf['cache']['driver'] = 'file';
$conf['token']['driver'] = 'none';
$conf['mailer']['params']['auth'] = '0';
$conf['mailer']['type'] = 'smtp';
$conf['vfs']['params']['driverconfig'] = 'horde';
$conf['vfs']['type'] = 'sql';
$conf['sessionhandler']['params']['persistent'] = false;
$conf['sessionhandler']['params']['rowlocking'] = true;
$conf['sessionhandler']['params']['socket'] = '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock';
$conf['sessionhandler']['params']['protocol'] = 'unix';
$conf['sessionhandler']['params']['hostspec'] = 'localhost';
$conf['sessionhandler']['params']['username'] = 'horde';
$conf['sessionhandler']['params']['password'] = 'hordepassword';
$conf['sessionhandler']['params']['database'] = 'horde';
$conf['sessionhandler']['type'] = 'mysql';
$conf['problems']['email'] = 'webmaster@home.topdog-software.com';
$conf['problems']['maildomain'] = 'home.topdog-software.com';
$conf['problems']['tickets'] = false;
$conf['menu']['apps'] = array();
$conf['menu']['always'] = true;
$conf['menu']['links']['help'] = 'authenticated';
$conf['menu']['links']['help_about'] = true;
$conf['menu']['links']['options'] = 'authenticated';
$conf['menu']['links']['problem'] = 'never';
$conf['menu']['links']['login'] = 'all';
$conf['menu']['links']['logout'] = 'authenticated';
$conf['hooks']['permsdenied'] = false;
$conf['hooks']['username'] = false;
$conf['hooks']['preauthenticate'] = false;
$conf['hooks']['postauthenticate'] = false;
$conf['hooks']['authldap'] = false;
$conf['portal']['fixed_blocks'] = array();
$conf['accounts']['driver'] = 'null';
$conf['imsp']['enabled'] = false;
$conf['kolab']['enabled'] = false;

• Set horde preferences to make web mail the default application on logging in. Edit the file /usr/share/horde/config/prefs.php and modify $_prefs['initial_application'] to look as below

$_prefs['initial_application'] = array(
    'value' => 'imp',
    'locked' => true,
    'shared' => true,
    'type' => 'select',
    'desc' => sprintf(_("What application should %s display after login?"), $GLOBALS['registry']->get('name'))
);

• Make horde work from within the default root of the web servers, edit /usr/share/horde/config/registry.php and modify $this→applications['horde'] as below

$this->applications['horde'] = array(
    'fileroot' => dirname(__FILE__) . '/..',
    'webroot' => '',
    'initial_page' => 'login.php',
    'name' => _("Horde"),
    'status' => 'active',
    'templates' => dirname(__FILE__) . '/../templates',
    'provides' => 'horde'
);

• Create imp base configuration /usr/share/horde/imp/config/conf.php

<?php
$conf['utils']['spellchecker'] = '/usr/bin/aspell';
$conf['utils']['gnupg'] = '/usr/bin/gpg';
$conf['utils']['gnupg_keyserver'] = array('pgp.mit.edu');
$conf['utils']['gnupg_timeout'] = '10';
$conf['utils']['openssl_cafile'] = '/etc/pki/tls/certs';
$conf['utils']['openssl_binary'] = '/usr/bin/openssl';
$conf['menu']['apps'] = array('ingo', 'kronolith', 'passwd', 'turba');
$conf['user']['select_sentmail_folder'] = false;
$conf['user']['allow_resume_all_in_drafts'] = true;
$conf['user']['allow_folders'] = true;
$conf['user']['allow_resume_all'] = false;
$conf['user']['allow_view_source'] = true;
$conf['user']['alternate_login'] = false;
$conf['user']['redirect_on_logout'] = false;
$conf['server']['change_server'] = false;
$conf['server']['change_port'] = false;
$conf['server']['change_protocol'] = false;
$conf['server']['change_smtphost'] = false;
$conf['server']['change_smtpport'] = false;
$conf['server']['server_list'] = 'none';
$conf['server']['sort_limit'] = '0';
$conf['server']['cache_folders'] = false;
$conf['server']['cache_msgbody'] = true;
$conf['mailbox']['show_attachments'] = false;
$conf['mailbox']['show_preview'] = false;
$conf['mailbox']['show_xpriority'] = false;
$conf['fetchmail']['show_account_colors'] = false;
$conf['fetchmail']['size_limit'] = '4000000';
$conf['msgsettings']['filtering']['words'] = './config/filter.txt';
$conf['msgsettings']['filtering']['replacement'] = '****';
$conf['spam']['reporting'] = false;
$conf['notspam']['reporting'] = false;
$conf['msg']['prepend_header'] = true;
$conf['msg']['append_trailer'] = true;
$conf['compose']['allow_cc'] = true;
$conf['compose']['allow_bcc'] = true;
$conf['compose']['allow_receipts'] = true;
$conf['compose']['special_characters'] = true;
$conf['compose']['use_vfs'] = false;
$conf['compose']['link_attachments'] = false;
$conf['compose']['add_maildomain_to_unexpandable'] = false;
$conf['compose']['attach_size_limit'] = '0';
$conf['compose']['attach_count_limit'] = '0';
$conf['hooks']['vinfo'] = false;
$conf['hooks']['signature'] = false;
$conf['hooks']['trailer'] = false;
$conf['hooks']['fetchmail_filter'] = false;
$conf['hooks']['mbox_redirect'] = false;
$conf['hooks']['mbox_icon'] = false;
$conf['hooks']['spam_bounce'] = false;
$conf['maillog']['use_maillog'] = true;
$conf['tasklist']['use_tasklist'] = true;
$conf['notepad']['use_notepad'] = true;

• Create IMP servers configuration /usr/share/horde/imp/config/servers.php (remove all others) with content below

<?php

$servers['cyrus'] = array(
    'name' => 'localserver',
    'server' => 'localhost',
    'hordeauth' => 'full',
    'protocol' => 'imap/notls',
    'port' => 143,
    'maildomain' => '',
    'smtphost' => 'localhost',
    'smtpport' => 25,
    'realm' => '',
    'preferred' => '',
    'admin' => array(
        'params' => array(
            'login' => 'cyrus',
            'password' => '',
            'userhierarchy' => 'user.',
            'protocol' => 'imap/notls',
            'hostspec' => 'localhost',
            'port' => 143
        )
    ),
    'quota' => array(
        'driver' => 'cyrus',
        'params' => array(),
    ),
    'acl' => array(
        'driver' => 'rfc2086',
    ),
);

• Prevent compose window from being a popup, edit /usr/share/horde/imp/config/prefs.php and change the variable $_prefs['compose_window'] to look like below

$_prefs['compose_popup'] = array(
    'value' => 0,
    'locked' => true,
    'shared' => true,
    'type' => 'checkbox',
    'desc' => _("Compose messages in a separate window?"));

• Create kronolith base configuration /usr/share/horde/kronolith/config/conf.php

<?php
$conf['calendar']['params']['table'] = 'kronolith_events';
$conf['calendar']['params']['driverconfig'] = 'horde';
$conf['calendar']['driver'] = 'sql';
$conf['storage']['params']['table'] = 'kronolith_storage';
$conf['storage']['params']['driverconfig'] = 'horde';
$conf['storage']['driver'] = 'sql';
$conf['metadata']['keywords'] = false;
$conf['reminder']['server_name'] = 'home.topdog-software.com';
$conf['reminder']['from_addr'] = 'postmaster@home.topdog-software.com';
$conf['autoshare']['shareperms'] = 'none';
$conf['menu']['print'] = true;
$conf['menu']['import_export'] = true;
$conf['menu']['apps'] = array('imp', 'ingo', 'kronolith', 'turba');

• Configure the turba base configuration /usr/share/horde/turba/config/conf.php

<?php
$conf['menu']['import_export'] = true;
$conf['menu']['apps'] = array('imp', 'ingo', 'kronolith', 'turba');
$conf['client']['addressbook'] = 'localsql';
$conf['comments']['allow'] = true;
$conf['documents']['type'] = 'horde';

• Configure the ingo base configuration /usr/share/horde/ingo/config/conf.php

<?php
$conf['menu']['apps'] = array('imp', 'kronolith', 'turba');
$conf['storage']['driver'] = 'prefs';
$conf['storage']['maxblacklist'] = 0;
$conf['storage']['maxwhitelist'] = 0;
$conf['rules']['userheader'] = true;
$conf['rules']['usefolderapi'] = true

• Configure the ingo backend to use timsieved in /usr/share/horde/ingo/config/backends.php (remove all other backends)

<?php
$backends['sieve'] = array(
    'driver' => 'timsieved',
    'preferred' => 'localhost',
    'hordeauth' => 'full',
    'params' => array(
        'hostspec' => 'localhost',
        'logintype' => 'PLAIN',
        'usetls' => true,
        'port' => 2000,
        'scriptname' => 'ingo',
    ),
    'script' => 'sieve',
    'scriptparams' => array()
);

• Configure the passwd base configuration /usr/share/horde/passwd/config/conf.php

<?php
$conf['menu']['apps'] = array('imp', 'ingo', 'kronolith', 'turba');
$conf['backend']['backend_list'] = 'hidden';
$conf['user']['change'] = true;
$conf['user']['refused'] = array('root', 'bin', 'daemon', 'adm', 'lp', 'shutdown',
'halt', 'uucp', 'ftp', 'anonymous', 'nobody', 'httpd', 'operator', 'guest', 'diginext', 'bind', 'cyrus', 'courier', 'games', 'kmem', 'mailnull', 'man', 'mysql', 'news', 'postfix', 'sshd', 'tty', 'www');
$conf['password']['strengthtests'] = false;
$conf['hooks']['full_name'] = true;
$conf['hooks']['default_username'] = false;
$conf['hooks']['username'] = false;
$conf['hooks']['userdn'] = false;

• Configure the passwd back end to use the horde mysql database in /usr/share/horde/passwd/config/backends.php (remove all others)

<?php
$backends['hordesql'] = array (
    'name' => 'Horde Authentication',
    'preferred' => '',
    'password policy' => array(
        'minLength' => 5,
        'maxLength' => 8,
        'maxSpace' => 0,
        'minUpper' => 1,
        'minLower' => 1,
        'minNumeric' => 1,
        'minSymbols' => 1
    ),
    'driver' => 'sql',
    'params' => array_merge($conf['sql'],
                            array('table' => 'horde_users',
                                  'user_col' => 'user_uid',
                                  'pass_col' => 'user_pass',
                                  'show_encryption' => false)),
);

• Secure the horde installation

 chown apache:root -R /usr/share/horde/config
 chown apache:root -R /usr/share/horde/*/config
 chmod -R go-rwx /usr/share/horde/config
 chmod -R go-rwx /usr/share/horde/*/config
 chown -R root:root /usr/share/horde/scripts
 chown -R root:root /usr/share/horde/*/scripts
 chmod -R go-rwx /usr/share/horde/scripts
 chmod -R go-rwx /usr/share/horde/*/scripts
 chmod a-rwx /usr/share/horde/test.php
 chmod a-rwx /usr/share/horde/*/test.php
 find /usr/share/horde/ -iname readme -exec rm -f {} \;
 find /usr/share/horde/ -iname todo -exec rm -vf {} \;
 find /usr/share/horde/ -iname license -exec rm -vf {} \;
 find /usr/share/horde/ -iname copying -exec rm -vf {} \;
 find /usr/share/horde/ -iname docs -exec rm -vrf {} \;

The cyrus-imapd system will have virtual hosting enabled, sieve scripts, quota's set to 10MB, auto creation (& auto subscription) of the mailbox with these folders (INBOX,sent-mail,drafts,spam,trash). Authentication of users will take place aganist the Mysql database via SASL using the saslauthd daemon.

• Create the configuration /etc/imapd.conf with the following content

configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
servername: TDS-IMAP/POP3
partition-default: /var/spool/imap
virtdomains: on
defaultdomain: localhost.localdomain
admins: andrew@home.topdog-software.com
postmaster: support@home.topdog-software.com
quotawarn: 85
lmtp_over_quota_perm_failure: 1
lmtp_strict_quota: 1
autocreatequota: 10240
createonpost: 1
autocreateinboxfolders: sent-mail|drafts|spam|trash
autosubscribeinboxfolders: sent-mail|drafts|spam|trash
autocreate_sieve_script: /etc/default_sieve
autocreate_sieve_compiledscript: /etc/default_sieve_script.bc
sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
md5_dir: /var/lib/imap/md5
#sievenotifier: sms
#sendsms: /usr/bin/mysmsprog
sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
hashimapspool: true
sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
allowplainwithouttls: 0
tls_cert_file: /etc/pki/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.pem
tls_key_file: /etc/pki/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.pem
tls_ca_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
loglevel: info

• Create the configuration /etc/cyrus.conf with the following content

START {
  # do not delete this entry!
  recover       cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -r"

  # this is only necessary if using idled for IMAP IDLE
  idled         cmd="idled"
  # replication
  # syncclient       cmd="/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/sync_client -r"
}

# UNIX sockets start with a slash and are put into /var/lib/imap/sockets
SERVICES {
  # add or remove based on preferences
  imap          cmd="imapd" listen="imap" prefork=1 proto=tcp maxchild=100 maxfds=1000 provide_uuid=1
#  imaps                cmd="imapd -s" listen="imaps" prefork=1
  pop3          cmd="pop3d" listen="pop3" prefork=1 proto=tcp maxchild=100 maxfds=1000 provide_uuid=1
#  pop3s                cmd="pop3d -s" listen="pop3s" prefork=1
  sieve         cmd="timsieved" listen="localhost:sieve" prefork=0 proto=tcp maxfds=1000 provide_uuid=1

  # these are only necessary if receiving/exporting usenet via NNTP
#  nntp         cmd="nntpd" listen="nntp" prefork=3
#  nntps                cmd="nntpd -s" listen="nntps" prefork=1

  #fud
  # fud           cmd="fud" listen="fud" prefork=1 proto="udp"
  # at least one LMTP is required for delivery
#  lmtp         cmd="lmtpd" listen="lmtp" prefork=0
  lmtpunix      cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=1 maxfds=1000 provide_uuid=1

  # this is only necessary if using notifications
  notify        cmd="notifyd" listen="/var/lib/imap/socket/notify" proto="udp" prefork=1
  # replication
}

EVENTS {
  # this is required
  checkpoint    cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -c" period=30 maxfds=1000

  # this is only necessary if using duplicate delivery suppression,
  # Sieve or NNTP
  delprune      cmd="cyr_expire -E 3" at=0400

  # this is only necessary if caching TLS sessions
  #tlsprune     cmd="tls_prune" at=0400
  squat         cmd="squatter"  period=30
}

Pam_mysql will be used to authenticate the following cyrus-imapd services aganist the mysql database, IMAP,POP,SIEVE,LMTP,CSYNC.

Enable pam_mysql for the services make the changes below.

• /etc/pam.d/imap

auth       optional     pam_mysql.so user=horde passwd=hordepassword host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock db=horde table=horde_users usercolumn=user_uid passwdcolumn=user_pass crypt=3
account    required     pam_mysql.so user=horde passwd=hordepassword host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock db=horde table=horde_users usercolumn=user_uid passwdcolumn=user_pass crypt=3

• /etc/pam.d/pop

auth       optional     pam_mysql.so user=horde passwd=hordepassword host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock db=horde table=horde_users usercolumn=user_uid passwdcolumn=user_pass crypt=3
account    required     pam_mysql.so user=horde passwd=hordepassword host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock db=horde table=horde_users usercolumn=user_uid passwdcolumn=user_pass crypt=3

• /etc/pam.d/sieve

auth       optional     pam_mysql.so user=horde passwd=hordepassword host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock db=horde table=horde_users usercolumn=user_uid passwdcolumn=user_pass crypt=3
account    required     pam_mysql.so user=horde passwd=hordepassword host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock db=horde table=horde_users usercolumn=user_uid passwdcolumn=user_pass crypt=3

• /etc/pam.d/lmtp

auth       optional     pam_mysql.so user=horde passwd=hordepassword host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock db=horde table=horde_users usercolumn=user_uid passwdcolumn=user_pass crypt=3
account    required     pam_mysql.so user=horde passwd=hordepassword host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock db=horde table=horde_users usercolumn=user_uid passwdcolumn=user_pass crypt=3

• /etc/pam.d/csync

auth       optional     pam_mysql.so user=horde passwd=hordepassword host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock db=horde table=horde_users usercolumn=user_uid passwdcolumn=user_pass crypt=3
account    required     pam_mysql.so user=horde passwd=hordepassword host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock db=horde table=horde_users usercolumn=user_uid passwdcolumn=user_pass crypt=3

• Edit /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd and modify to below

SOCKETDIR=/var/run/saslauthd

# Mechanism to use when checking passwords.  Run "saslauthd -v" to get a list
# of which mechanism your installation was compiled to use.
MECH=pam

# Additional flags to pass to saslauthd on the command line.  See saslauthd(8)
# for the list of accepted flags.
FLAGS="-r -n 0 -c"

• Add the clamav user to the exim group.

usermod -G exim clamav

• Change the location of the socket and disable TCP. Make changes to /etc/clamd.conf

LocalSocket /var/run/clamav/clamd.socket
#TCPSocket 3310
#TCPAddr 127.0.0.1

• Install sane security signatures

wget http://www.sanesecurity.co.uk/clamav/update_sanesecurity.txt -O /usr/local/bin/update_sanesecurity.sh
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/update_sanesecurity.sh
ln -s /usr/local/bin/update_sanesecurity.sh /etc/cron.hourly/
/usr/local/bin/update_sanesecurity.sh

• Enable local selinux module for clamav, create file clamdlocal.te and add the following

module clamdlocal 1.0;

require {
        type proc_t;
        type var_t;
        type sysctl_kernel_t;
        type var_spool_t;
        type clamd_t;
        class dir { write search read remove_name add_name };
        class file { write getattr read lock create unlink };
}

#============= clamd_t ==============
allow clamd_t proc_t:file { read getattr };
allow clamd_t sysctl_kernel_t:dir search;
allow clamd_t sysctl_kernel_t:file read;
allow clamd_t var_spool_t:dir read;
allow clamd_t var_spool_t:file { read getattr };
allow clamd_t var_t:dir { write read add_name remove_name };
allow clamd_t var_t:file { write getattr read lock create unlink };

• Compile and load the module

checkmodule -M -m -o clamdlocal.mod clamdlocal.te
semodule_package -o clamdlocal.pp -m clamdlocal.mod
semodule -i clamdlocal.pp

• Modify the startup options edit /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin and modify as below

SPAMDOPTIONS=" -l -d -c -m5 -H -m 10 --socketpath=/var/run/spamassassin/spamd.sock --socketowner=exim"

• Enable local spamd module for spamassassin, create file spamdlocal.te and add the following

module spamdlocal 1.0;

require {
        type spamd_t;
        type spamd_var_run_t;
        class capability { fowner chown kill };
        class sock_file { write create unlink getattr setattr };
}

#============= spamd_t ==============
allow spamd_t self:capability { fowner chown kill };
allow spamd_t spamd_var_run_t:sock_file { write create unlink getattr setattr };

• Compile and install the module

checkmodule -M -m -o spamdlocal.mod spamdlocal.te
semodule_package -o spamdlocal.pp -m spamdlocal.mod
semodule -i spamdlocal.pp

Disable unwanted services, use this script

chkconfig --level 234 exim on
chkconfig --level 234 mysqld on
chkconfig --level 234 spamassassin on
chkconfig --level 234 clamd on
chkconfig --level 234 httpd on
chkconfig --level 234 saslauthd on
chkconfig --level 234 cyrus-imapd on

service mysqld restart
service saslauthd restart
service spamassassin restart
service clamd restart
service exim restart
service cyrus-imapd restart
service httpd restart

• Create a file admin.sql and add the following (modify the password to suite you)

USE horde;

REPLACE INTO horde_users (user_uid,user_pass)
    VALUES (
        'andrew@home.topdog-software.com',
-- Change this
        md5('verystrongpassword'),
);

• Add user to database

mysql -p horde < admin.sql

Add these rules in your configuration file /etc/sysconfig/iptables

*raw
:PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
COMMIT

*nat
:PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
COMMIT

*mangle
:PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
COMMIT

*filter
:FORWARD DROP [0:0]
:INPUT DROP [0:0]
:OUTPUT DROP [0:0]
-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m multiport -j ACCEPT --dports 80,443,25,110,143
-A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp -m limit --icmp-type 8 --limit 5/min -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -s 192.168.1.4 -j ACCEPT
COMMIT

Phew ! you are done. Open your browser and go to https://192.168.1.4/ and login with the details above, you can the create other users under administration → users. You can test all the other features as well.

• http://www.horde.org
• http://wiki.horde.org/CentOS5InstallationNotes
• http://sanesecurity.co.uk/clamav/
• http://www.exim.org/
• http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/imapd/install.html
• http://pam-mysql.sourceforge.net/
• http://dev.mysql.com/