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.
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<<< 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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