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Install iRedMail on FreeBSD

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If you want to install iRedMail inside FreeBSD Jail, please use this installation guide instead: Install iRedMail inside FreeBSD Jail (with ezjail)

System Requirements

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.

To install iRedMail on FreeBSD, you need:

  • A FRESH, minimal, working FreeBSD system, no addition ports or binary packages were installed. Supported releases are listed on Download page.
  • At least 1 GB of memory is required for low traffic production server. Spam/Virus scanning will take most system resource.

Note: All packages will be installed from ports tree.

Preparations

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 FreeBSD, hostname is set in two files: /etc/rc.conf, /etc/hosts.

  • /etc/rc.conf: set hostname.
# Part of File: /etc/rc.conf
hostname="mx.example.com"
  • /etc/hosts: hostname <=> IP address mapping.
# 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, please reboot server to make it work.

# hostname -f
mx.example.com

Update ports tree via portsnap

# portsnap fetch extract update

Install package bash-static, it's required by iRedMail

# -- For FreeBSD 9 or earlier releases --
# pkg_add -r bash-static

# -- For FreeBSD 10 or later releases --
# pkg install bash-static

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.bz2 (replace x.y.z by the real version number).

  • Uncompress iRedMail tarball:

# cd /root/
# tar xjf iRedMail-x.y.z.tar.bz2

Start iRedMail installer

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, it will ask you several simple questions, that's all steps to setup a full-featured mail server.

# cd /root/iRedMail-x.y.z/
# bash iRedMail.sh

Screenshots of installation:

  • Welcome and thanks for your use

  • Specify location to store all mailboxes. Default is /var/vmail/.

  • Choose backend used to store mail accounts. You can manage mail accounts with iRedAdmin, our web-based iRedMail admin panel.

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.

  • If you choose to store mail accounts in OpenLDAP, iRedMail installer will ask you two questions about OpenLDAP.

LDAP suffix.

Password of LDAP root dn.

  • Set password of MySQL or PostgreSQL admin user.

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.

  • Add your first mail domain name

  • Set password of admin account of your first mail domain.

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.

  • Choose optional components

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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**************************** WARNING ***********************************
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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

Important things you MUST know after installation

Access webmail and other web applications

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.

Get technical support

Please post all issues, feedbacks, feature requests, suggestions in our online support forum, it's more responsible than you expected.

Notes about binary packages provided by iRedMail project

Most binary packages in iRedMail yum repository comes from below repositories, packages with -ired flag were packed by iRedMail project.