++WARNING: iRedMail is designed to be deployed on a FRESH server system, +which means your server does NOT have mail related components installed, +e.g. MySQL, OpenLDAP, Postfix, Dovecot, Amavisd, etc. iRedMail will install +and configure them for you automatically. Otherwise it may override your +existing files/configurations althought it will backup files before modifing, +and it may be not working as expected.
+
To install iRedMail on Debian Linux, you need:
+1 GB of memory is required for low traffic production server.
+ Spam/Virus scanning will take most system resource.Note: All binary packages will be installed from Debian official apt repositories.
+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, hostname is set in two files: /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts.
/etc/hostname: short hostname, not FQDN.mx
+/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
+/etc/apt/sources.lists.bzip2 so that you can uncompress downloaded iRedMail package.# sudo apt-get install bzip2
+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.bz2 (replace x.y.z by the real version number).
Uncompress iRedMail tarball:
+# cd /root/
+# tar xjf iRedMail-x.y.z.tar.bz2
+It's now ready to start iRedMail installer, it will ask you several simple +questions, that's all steps to setup a full-featured mail server.
+++For Chinese users: Our domain name "iredmail.org" is blocked in China mainland since Jun 04, 2011, please replace all 'iredmail.org' by its IP address "106.187.51.47" (without quotes) in /root/iRedMail-x.y.z/pkgs/get_all.sh BEFORE executing "iRedMail.sh". This is a Linode VPS hosted in Tokyo, Japan.
+
# cd /root/iRedMail-x.y.z/
+# bash iRedMail.sh
+
/var/vmail/.
IMPORTANT NOTE: There's no big difference between available backends, so +it's strongly recommended to choose the one you're familiar with for easier +management and maintenance after installation.
+
LDAP suffix.
+
Password of LDAP root dn.
+
NOTE: MySQL is used to store data of other applications (e.g. Roundcube +webmail, Cluebringer, Amavisd-new) if you choose OpenLDAP or MySQL as backend.
+
Note: This account is an admin account and a mail user. That means you can +login to webmail and admin panel (iRedAdmin) with this account, login username +is full email address.
+
After answered above questions, iRedMail installer will ask your confirm to
+start installation. It will install and configure required packages
+automatically. Type y or Y and press Enter to start.
Configuration completed.
+
+*************************************************************************
+**************************** WARNING ***********************************
+*************************************************************************
+* *
+* Please do remember to *REMOVE* configuration file after installation *
+* completed successfully. *
+* *
+* * /root/iRedMail-x.y.z/config
+* *
+*************************************************************************
+<<< iRedMail >>> Continue? [Y|n] # <- Type 'Y' or 'y' here, and press 'Enter' to continue
+Read file /root/iRedMail-x.y.z/iRedMail.tips first, it contains:
After installation successfully completed, you can access web-based programs
+if you choose to install them. Replace your_server below by your real server
+hostname or IP address.
Please post all issues, feedbacks, feature requests, suggestions in our online +support forum, it's more responsible than you +expected.
+Most binary packages in iRedMail yum repository comes from below repositories,
+packages with -ired flag were packed by iRedMail project.
If you found something wrong +in this document, please do +contact us to fix it.
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