My Directadmin setup

[rroethof]

I saw a lot of methods for directadmin on the forum, but none realy helped me unfortunatly.
As I figured out my personal method for using PMG in combination with DA, I wanted to post my method here, maybe it can help some future users

1. As per standard, I added the IP's of my DA servers in the mynetworks part of PMG, so all mail coming from my DA servers is at least accepted on PMG.
2. I created a DKIM record in https://PMG:8006/#pmgMailProxyConfiguration:dkim
   with the settings below so that the PMG signs all outgoing mail with DKIM
   
3. I added the ssh keys of the DA servers to the PMG servers (limited to the DA IP's) 192 is obvious not my IP
   

   root@pmg:~# cat .ssh/authorized_keys
   from="192.168.0.1" ssh-rsa ...

4. Now comes the DA tricky part, I had to create a few scripts in DA...
   

   cd /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/custom
   mkdir domain_change_post
   mkdir domain_create_post
   mkdir domain_destroy_post

   
   Replace PMG with the hostname of your PMG server
   Replace DA with the hostname of your DA server
   
   file : domain_change_post/mx02-transport.sh
   

   #!/bin/sh
   echo "Removing $domain from PMG transport map"
   ssh PMG /usr/bin/pmgsh delete /config/transport/$domain
   
   echo "Adding $newdomain to PMG transport map"
   ssh PMG /usr/bin/pmgsh create /config/transport --domain $newdomain --host DA --comment DA_user_$username

   
   file : domain_change_post/mx02-relay.sh
   

   #!/bin/sh
   echo "Removing $domain from PMG relay list"
   ssh PMG /usr/bin/pmgsh delete /config/domains/$domain
   
   echo "Adding $newdomain to PMG relay list"
   ssh PMG /usr/bin/pmgsh create /config/domains --domain $newdomain --comment DA_user_$username

   
   file : domain_create_post/mx02-transport.sh
   

   #!/bin/sh
   echo "Adding $domain to PMG transport map"
   ssh PMG  /usr/bin/pmgsh create /config/transport --domain $domain --host DA --comment DA_user_$username

   
   file : domain_create_post/mx02-dkim.sh
   

   #!/bin/sh
   echo "Adding $domain to PMG DKIM list"
   ssh PMG  /usr/bin/pmgsh create /config/dkim/domains --domain $domain --comment DA_user_$username

   
   file : domain_create_post/mx02-relay.sh
   

   #!/bin/sh
   echo "Adding $domain to PMG relay list"
   ssh PMG  /usr/bin/pmgsh create /config/domains --domain $domain --comment DA_user_$username

   
   file : domain_destroy_post/mx02-transport.sh
   

   #!/bin/sh
   echo "Removing $domain from PMG transport map"
   ssh PMG /usr/bin/pmgsh delete /config/transport/$domain

   
   file : domain_destroy_post/mx02-relay.sh
   

   #!/bin/sh
   echo "Removing $domain from PMG relay list"
   ssh PMG /usr/bin/pmgsh delete /config/domains/$domain

5. Finally, add the IP's of your PMG servers to the DA server in
   /etc/virtual/whitelist_hosts_ip
   
   That way, you don't get bullshit on your DA server with SPF rejects..

It's not perfect, I know... It's not finished, or at least,it could be polished up.
But it works, we can create domains in DirectAdmin and not have to worry about manually adding stuff to PMG.
For now, it works realy nice, when people find this usefull and when I make changes, I can post the changes here too


Greetz,

Ronny

 

[notnulled]

Great how-to Thanks!

 

[H.c.K]

Hi Ronny,

Thank you for informations. I will try it my systems and share the results.