Tech:Mail

This pages documents all email services hosted on the Orain servers.

MediaWiki
MediaWiki mail produced by the system automatically is sent from noreply@orain.org and is always related to the MediaWiki software.

Staff
Staff or those associated with Orain's daily management (sysadmins, council members..) may be given or may make use of Orain emails for official or Orain-related business. Within this, role emails may also be made for specific cases.

End Users
Orain uses Postfix and Dovecot for the email services on prod6. In order to use the Orain mail service on a third party client, the incoming and outgoing mail servers are the same. The hostname is 'mail.orain.org' and the username and password for connection will be given to you by a sysadmin when the account is set up.

How Tos
This is documentation for sysadmins. All commands should be ran on prod6 unless otherwise stated.

useradd --create-home -s /sbin/nologin ; passwd is the part before @orain.org, so 123@orain.org would be just 123.
 * add new email

passwd
 * change email password

To enable an alias, add to, the following :   aliasmail would be test1 and targetmail test for emails to test1@orain.org to be sent to test@orain.org. After the alias has been added, run  for Postfix for refresh the aliases list.
 * aliases

Please see Mailman.
 * mailing lists/groups

If you want to fully remove the email, do userdel -r and ensure the email is removed from all aliases. To disable it only, do passwd -l To undisable the account at a later date, do passwd -u
 * disable an email