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Install iRedMail

• Install iRedMail on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS
• Install iRedMail on Debian or Ubuntu Linux
• Install iRedMail on FreeBSD
• Install iRedMail on FreeBSD inside Jail (with ezjail)
• Install iRedMail on OpenBSD
• Install iRedMail with a remote MySQL server
• Setup DNS records for your iRedMail server
• Perform silent/unattended iRedMail installation

Release notes and upgrade tutorials

• iRedMail release notes and upgrade tutorials
• iRedAdmin-Pro release notes and upgrade tutorials
• Upgrade iRedAPD

Migrations

• Migrate old iRedMail server to the latest stable release
• Password hashes

Configure mail client applications

If you're using different mail clients, please help write documents to guide other users to setup the mail clients.

• Configure Thunderbird as mail client (POP3/IMAP, SMTP and global ldap address book)
• Setup BlackBerry 10 OS (Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync)
• Mac OS X: Add contact service (CardDAV) in Contacts.app
• Mac OS X: Add calendar (CalDAV) and task (Reminders) service in iCalendar.app

How to

• Allow certain users to send email as another user
• Change mail attachment size
• Completely disable Amavisd + ClamAV + SpamAssassin
• Enable SMTPS service (SMTP over SSL, port 465)
• Disable spam virus scanning for outgoing mails
• Amavisd + SpamAssassin not working, no mail header (X-Spam-*) inserted.
• Quarantining
• Sign DKIM signature on outgoing emails for new mail domain
• Allow insecure POP3/IMAP/SMTP connections without STARTTLS
• Allow user to send email without authentication
• Amavisd: Enable per-recipient policy lookup
• Change server hostname
• Dovecot Master User
• Force mail user to change password in 90 days
• Ignore Trash folder in mailbox quota
• LDAP: Add an alias domain
• LDAP: Add a mail alias account
• LDAP: Add a mail list account
• LDAP: User mail forwarding.
• Mailbox sharing (Sharing IMAP folder with other users)
• Monitor incoming and outgoing mails with BCC
• Move detected spam to Junk folder
• Per-domain or per-user transport (relay)
• Pipe incoming email for certain user to external script
• Force Dovecot to recalculate mailbox quota
• Reset user password
• SQL: Add domain catch-all account
• SQL: Add a mail alias account
• SQL: Per-user inbound and outbound restrictions
• Store SpamAssassin bayes in SQL
• Use a bought SSL certificate
• Use OpenLDAP as address book in Microsoft Outlook

Documents contributed by iRedMail users:

• Anti-spam with Dovecot antispam plugin and SpamAssassin, contributed by Dexus.

Third-party integrations

• Integrate Microsoft Active Directory in iRedMail

• Install SOGo groupware on:

  • CentOS 6: MySQL, OpenLDAP.

Documents contributed by iRedMail users:

• Enabling Apache Solr 4.10 (using jetty) with Dovecot 2.2 for fulltext search results on Centos 6 (iRedMail compatible)
• Install iRedMail and Mailman on Debian Squeeze. Howtoforge tutorial, contributed by Jason Norwood-Young.
• Integrate DBMail in iRedMail (MySQL backend)
• High-Availability Maildir Storage With GlusterFS + CentOS 5.x, contributed by Basem Hegazy. 2011-06-26
• Integrate OpenVPN in iRedMail with OpenLDAP
• Integrate Ejabberd in iRedMail with OpenLDAP
• Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd
• SOGo Groupware
  • CentOS 6.5 + iRedMail (OpenLDAP backend) + SOGo Groupware. Contributed by kospel. 2014-04-18
  • Ubuntu 11.04 (oneiric) + iRedMail (MySQL backend) + SOGo Groupware. Contributed by Wynni, 2012-05-12.
  • Debian + iRedMail (OpenLDAP backend) + SOGo Groupware. Contributed by Luciano Pedron, 2011-06-04.
  • Install iRedMail with LDAP backend and SOGo as Groupware. Contributed by conheotiensinh

Cluster

Documents contributed by iRedMail users:

• An Ultra-HA, full Mult-Master E-mail cluster with iRedMail, MariaDB, and IPVS, contributed by Joshua Boniface.

Troubleshooting and Debug

• Turn on debug mode in Amavisd and SpamAssassin
• Turn on debug mode in Cluebringer
• Turn on debug mode in Dovecot
• Turn on debug mode in iRedAPD
• Turn on debug mode in OpenLDAP

Frequently Asked Questions

• Errors you may see while maintaining iRedMail server
• Locations of configuration and log files of mojor components
• Why append timestamp in maildir path
• iRedAdmin-Pro: Default password restrictions
• iRedAdmin-Pro: Enable self-service to allow users to manage their own preferences and more
• iRedAdmin: Translate iRedAdmin to your local language

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