Centos install maildirmake

Start by creating a root password. Bear in mind that this needs to be a strong password. The root user is used for system administration and has access to all commands and files. For uncrackable password ideas, consider some of our suggestions for greater system protection. Next, create a user with non-root privileges for everyday use. Then, type in your full name and a user name for the system. Tick the boxes that make the user an administrator and require password confirmation.

Finally, provide the password you want to use and retype it to confirm. Wait until the installation is complete. You will receive a message that CentOS Linux 8 has been successfully installed and is ready to use. To start using the new OS, you first need to Reboot the system. The system restarts and opens an Initial Setup window with a Licensing Agreement that you must accept to finish the configuration.

Click on the License Information and tick the box to confirm you accept the agreement. With the initial setup and configuration done, the installation wizard redirects you to the login screen. Type in the password you assigned to your user and hit Enter. In the following prompt, select the keyboard layout or input method you prefer and click Next again. Select whether you want Location Services turned on or off. This is a privacy setting you may or may not want to uphold. By leaving Location Services ON , you allow applications to determine your geographical location.

Finally, the prompt gives you an option to Connect to Your Online Accounts for more convenient access. If you do not want to do so, click the Skip button to proceed. After reading this guide and following all the steps, you should have successfully installed CentOS 8 on your system. These images are built and made available for all the architectures that corresponding version supports. Worth knowing that you can also import through Skopeo or other methods container images the same way, and such.

Parallel to that, we have also official images that are available directly to be deployed for the following solutions:. To check the status of a mirror, please visit mirror-status. The CentOS project hosts our sources at git. This is documented in greater detail in the CentOS wiki.

In order to help ease the workload for our primary mirror network, the source rpms are not kept in the same tree as the binary packages. If you need the source packages used to build CentOS, you can find them in our vault vault. Legacy versions of CentOS are no longer supported. So finally, I have decided to go ahead and install maildrop myself using the source files, which contain the necessary stuff to build an RPM and then install it.

I will write up another post later once I have the full mail server installed but this will do for now, to cover installing maildrop on CentOS 5. First of all, you need to download the latest version of maildrop from Sourceforge. The version I used was 2.