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Install ViMbAdmin with Chef
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Two years ago I wrote a tutorial to install a complete Postfix mail server with Dovecot, SpamAssassin and ViMbAdmin. At the moment I am automating this tutorial for CentOS 7 with Chef. For ViMbAdmin I created a recipe that clones the ViMbAdmin repository from Github, puts the configuration files from templates, creates the database, tables and inserts an admin user into the database. I thought it would be nice to share my vimbadmin recipe:
Ubuntu 12.04 – Install Postfix, Dovecot and Vimbadmin
19This tutorial shows you how to install Postfix (2.9.6) with Dovecot (2.0.19), the manage tool Vimbadmin (2.2.2) and SpamAssassin (3.3.2) on Ubuntu Server 12.04 (I got feedback that this tutorial still works for Ubuntu Server 14.04).
If you are using Chef, “Install ViMbAdmin with Chef” can speed things up a bit.
Perform all actions as root!
Checks
Hostname
You should check that your server has a valid fqdn hostname (complete with the domain part):
hostname --fqd
If you get something like “localhost” or “mail” More >
