mx.example.com and IP address 172.16.122.244 for our Jail server.Notes:
IMPORTANT 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.
sysutils/ezjail for FreeBSD.We use hostname mx.example.com and internal IP address 172.16.122.244 for
example. We created an alias IP address on network interface em0, so we have
below setting in /etc/rc.conf for this IP address like below:
# Part of file: /etc/rc.conf
ifconfig_em0_alias0="inet 172.16.122.244 netmask 255.255.255.0"
# Settings for our Jail: mx.example.com.
jail_mx_example_com_hostname="mx.example.com"
jail_mx_example_com_ip="172.16.122.244"
# Required by PostgreSQL, otherwise initializing database will fail.
jail_mx_example_com_parameters='allow.sysvipc=1'
# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/ezjail/
# make install clean
/etc/rc.conf:# Part of file: /etc/rc.conf
# Start ezjail while system start up
ezjail_enable="YES"
ping command inside Jail by adding below line in
/etc/sysctl.conf:# Part of file: /etc/sysctl.conf
security.jail.allow_raw_sockets=1
/etc/rc.conf.# reboot
# ezjail-admin install -p
mx.example.com, bound to internal IP address
172.16.122.244. All files are placed under /jails/mx.example.com:# ezjail-admin create -r /jails/mx.example.com mx.example.com 172.16.122.244
/jails/mx.example.com/etc/rc.conf:# File: /jails/mx.example.com/etc/rc.conf
hostname="mx.example.com"
[OPTIONAL] Share /usr/ports/distfiles/ with Jail by adding below line in
/etc/fstab.mx_example_com:
/var/ports instead of
/usr/ports in /jails/mx.example.com/etc/make.conf, you can either
use this default setting or change it to /usr/ports.# Part of file: /etc/fstab.mx_example.com
/usr/ports/distfiles /jails/mx.example.com/basejail/usr/ports/distfiles nullfs rw 0 0
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ezjail restart
# ezjail-admin list
STA JID IP Hostname Root Directory
--- ---- ---------------- --------------------------------- ------------------------
DS 1 172.16.122.244 mx.example.com /jails/mx.example.com
We can now enter this Jail with below command:
# ezjail-admin console mx.example.com
/etc/resolv.conf with valid DNS server address(es). For example:# File: /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 172.16.122.2
bash-static, it's required by iRedMail.# pkg_add -r bash-static
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.
It's now ready to start iRedMail installer inside Jail, it will ask you several simple questions, that's all steps to setup a full-featured mail server.
# bash # <- start bash shell, REQUIRED
# cd /root/iRedMail/
# LOCAL_ADDRESS='172.16.122.244' 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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* Please do remember to *REMOVE* configuration file after installation *
* completed successfully. *
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* * /root/iRedMail-x.y.z/config
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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.
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