IRedMail
iRedMail is a shell script that automatically installs and configures all necessary mail server components on your Linux/BSD server, thus eliminating manual installation and configuration. With iRedMail, you can easily create unlimited mailboxes and unlimited mail domains in a web-based admin panel. Mailboxes can be stored in MariaDB/MySQL, PostgreSQL database, or OpenLDAP. The following is a list of open-source software that will be automatically installed and configured by iRedMail.
- Postfix SMTP server
- Dovecot IMAP server
- Nginx web server to serve the admin panel and webmail
- OpenLDAP, MySQL/MariaDB, or PostgreSQL for storing user information
- Amavised-new for DKIM signing and verification
- SpamAssassin for anti-spam
- ClamAV for anti-virus
- Roundcube webmail
- SOGo groupware, providing webmail, calendar (CalDAV), contacts (CardDAV), tasks and ActiveSync services.
- Fail2ban for protecting SSH
- mlmmj mailing list manager
- Netdata server monitoring
- iRedAPD Postfix policy server for greylisting
Installasi
Set a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) hostname on your server
No matter your server is a testing machine or production server, it's strongly recommended to set a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) hostname.
Enter command hostname -f to view the current hostname:
$ hostname -f mx.example.com
On Debian/Ubuntu Linux, hostname is set in two files: /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts.
On Debian/Ubuntu Linux, hostname is set in two files: /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts.
/etc/hostname: short hostname, not FQDN.
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/etc/hosts: static table lookup for hostnames. Warning: Please list the FQDN hostname as first item.
# Part of file: /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 mx.example.com mx localhost localhost.localdomain
Verify the FQDN hostname. If it wasn't changed after updating above two files, please reboot server to make it work.
$ hostname -f mx.example.com
Enable default official Debian/Ubuntu apt repositories
- iRedMail needs official Debian/Ubuntu apt repositories, please enable them in
/etc/apt/sources.list. - Install package
gzipso that you can uncompress downloaded iRedMail package.
sudo apt-get install gzip
Download the latest release of iRedMail
- Visit Download page to get the latest stable release of iRedMail.
- Upload iRedMail to your mail server via ftp or scp or whatever method you can use, login to the server to install iRedMail. We assume you uploaded it to
/root/iRedMail-x.y.z.tar.gz(replace x.y.z by the real version number). - Uncompress iRedMail tarball:
cd /root/ tar zxf iRedMail-x.y.z.tar.gz
Start iRedMail installer
It's now ready to start iRedMail installer, it will ask you several simple questions, that's all required to setup a full-featured mail server.
cd /root/iRedMail-x.y.z/ bash iRedMail.sh