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ISPmail Jessie tutorial

ISPmail Jessie tutorial 

ISPmail Jessie – Postfix SMTPd restrictions

Postfix provides the ability to apply filters during the SMTP session. When an email arrives at your mail server the

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ISPmail Jessie tutorial 

DNS MX records

About MX entries So now you have your working mail server. But how do emails find you? The answer lies

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ISPmail Jessie tutorial 

Setting up the Apache web server

Now that you have a valid key and certificate you are ready to set up your web server. You will

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ISPmail Jessie tutorial 

Making Postfix send emails to Dovecot

(Hint: The ISPmail guide now uses LMTP to exchange emails between Postfix and Dovecot. It is a much simpler and also

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ISPmail Jessie tutorial 

Filtering out spam with SpamAssassin

You already have a perfectly working mail server by now. But every serious email provider does something about the insane amount

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ISPmail Jessie tutorial 

Creating a TLS encryption key and certificate

(If you are unfamiliar with the abbreviation “TLS“: it is the successor to SSL.) The internet is the best invention

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ISPmail Jessie tutorial 

Install the software packages

Your server should now be booted up and ready. You can now login at the console. But I personally prefer

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ISPmail Jessie tutorial 

Install Debian Jessie on your server

If you rented a virtual server at your favorite hosting company then you already have a ready installation of Debian

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ISPmail Jessie tutorial 

Types of email domains

This is the most boring but also most important page of the entire tutorial. Most problems that readers have with their

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ISPmail Jessie tutorial 

The big picture

The mail server that you are about to set up uses several software components. Let me first explain briefly what the

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Readers’ comments

  • Christoph Haas 2021-01-27 at 10:11 on Debian packages are just so oldI admit that "moron" may not sound very scientific and overly simplified. Still even as a developer of a great
  • Wolfram 2021-01-27 at 09:03 on Debian packages are just so oldHi Christoph, calling a software developer a moron and using his software at the same time is a good example
  • Jon 2021-01-26 at 02:36 on Creating a TLS encryption key and certificateI could use some input on upgrading my stretch server to sit behind an HAProxy. I am wondering about certs.
  • wenston 2021-01-22 at 07:50 on QuotasThe part where postfix checks for quota isn't working. If I check dovecots status using systemctl status dovecot it shows
  • Arnaud 2021-01-21 at 17:04 on Webmail using RoundcubeHi, Can anybody help me ? I must confess that I'm a little bit blocked... Best regards, Arnaud
  • Usa 2021-01-21 at 11:25 on How Squid ACLs workHi, Christoph Haas Can we define more than two ACLs in one line http_access rule? For Example : acl ListIP1
  • OnceAceGuy 2021-01-19 at 07:30 on Setting up Dovecot@harshness - It is not in the tutorial, that is why I added the comment :-) I did a fresh
  • harshness 2021-01-19 at 00:58 on Setting up Dovecot>In dovecot-sql-conf.ext there is a default password scheme parameter as follows: >default_pass_scheme = MD5 Where in the Buster tutorial do
  • boris 2021-01-18 at 18:55 on Testing IMAPI just found out another little piece of my puzzle(dness): I believe that mutt doesn't care for the sub-domain, except
  • boris 2021-01-18 at 18:46 on Testing IMAPHi Christoph and thanks a lot for the extensive tutorial! One thing I don't understand: I connect to mutt with
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