Installing Maildrop on CentOS 7

This tutorial demonstrates how to build and install Courier-IMAP, Courier-Authlib, and Maildrop on CentOS 7 (this tutorial will also work for systems built on RedHat distributions – Fedora, RedHat and CentOS).

Installation process

Install dependencies:

yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
yum groupinstall 'Development Libraries'
yum install rpm-build gcc mysql-devel openssl-devel cyrus-sasl-devel pkgconfig zlib-devel pcre-devel openldap-devel postgresql-devel expect libtool-ltdl-devel openldap-servers libtool gdbm-devel pam-devel gamin-devel

Create a new user (the Courier-IMAP RPM package cannot be built as a root user. An error will be generated during compilation, so you need to log in or create a new account):

useradd -m -s /bin/bash usr1
passwd usr1

Next, you need to add the rights to use sudo to the new user. Run the command:

visudo

In the file that opens, find the line:

root ALL=(ALL) ALL

and add the following line after it:

usr1 ALL=(ALL) ALL

Building Maildrop, Courier-Authlib and Courier-IMAP packages:

su usr1

Create a build environment:

mkdir $HOME/rpm
mkdir $HOME/rpm/SOURCES
mkdir $HOME/rpm/SPECS
mkdir $HOME/rpm/BUILD
mkdir $HOME/rpm/SRPMS
mkdir $HOME/rpm/RPMS
mkdir $HOME/rpm/RPMS/i386
echo "%_topdir $HOME/rpm" >> $HOME/.rpmmacros

Create directories for downloading Courier and download the latest versions:

mkdir $HOME/downloads
cd $HOME/downloads
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/courier/courier-authlib-0.60.2.tar.bz2
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/courier/courier-imap-4.2.1.tar.bz2
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/courier/maildrop-2.0.4.tar.bz2

Building the Courier-Authlib package. From the $HOME/downloads directory run the command:

sudo rpmbuild -ta courier-authlib-0.60.2.tar.bz2

After successful assembly, the finished package will be placed in the directory:

$HOME/rpm/RPMS/i386

To view the available RPM packages, go to the directory:

cd $HOME/rpm/RPMS/i386

and run the following command:

ls -l

After executing this command, you will see a list of packages available for installation:

-rw-r–r– 1 root root 137335 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 323827 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-debuginfo-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root root  34201 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-devel-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root root  18039 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-ldap-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root root  14258 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-mysql-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm

Building the Courier-IMAP package. Go to the directory with the downloaded sources:

cd $HOME/downloads

Run the rpmbuild command without sudo:

rpmbuild -ta courier-imap-4.2.1.tar.bz2

After the package has been successfully created, it will be located in the following directory $HOME/rpm/RPMS/i386. Let’s go to it:

cd $HOME/rpm/RPMS/i386

We look at the packages available for installation with the command:

ls -l

-rw-r–r– 1 root root 137335 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 323827 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-debuginfo-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root root  34201 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-devel-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root root  18039 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-ldap-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root root  14258 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-mysql-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root root  13602 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-pgsql-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root root   8336 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-pipe-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root root  36859 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-userdb-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r– 1 falko falko 383455 2007-11-13 18:21
courier-imap-4.2.1-1.8.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r– 1 falko falko 917771 2007-11-13 18:21 courier-imap-debuginfo-4.2.1-1.8.i386.rpm

Building the Maildrop package. Go to the directory with the downloaded sources:

cd $HOME/downloads

Run the following command using sudo:

sudo rpmbuild -ta maildrop-2.0.4.tar.bz2

After successfully building Maildrop, move to the folder with the built packages:

cd $HOME/rpm/RPMS/i386

We look at the packages available for installation:

ls -l

-rw-r–r– 1 root  root 324618 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-debuginfo-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root  root 137343 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root  root 34208 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-devel-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root  root 18042 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-ldap-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root  root 13599 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-pgsql-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root  root 14254 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-mysql-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root  root 8339 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-pipe-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root  root 36855 2007-11-13 18:02 courier-authlib-userdb-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r– 1 falko falko 383455 2007-11-13 18:21 courier-imap-4.2.1-1.8.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r– 1 falko falko 917771 2007-11-13 18:21 courier-imap-debuginfo-4.2.1-1.8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root  root 752872 2007-11-13 18:35 maildrop-debuginfo-2.0.4-1.8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root  root 299030 2007-11-13 18:35 maildrop-2.0.4-1.8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root  root 136235 2007-11-13 18:35 maildrop-devel-2.0.4-1.8.i386.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root  root 58439 2007-11-13 18:35 maildrop-man-2.0.4-1.8.i386.rpm

Installing packages:

sudo rpm -ivh courier-authlib-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh courier-authlib-devel-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh courier-authlib-mysql-0.60.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh courier-imap-4.2.1-1.8.i386.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh maildrop-2.0.4-1.8.i386.rpm

After installing all the packages, you need to exit the usr1 user with the following command:

exit

This completes the assembly and installation of Courier and Maildrop.

 

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