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ISPmail Stretch

ISPmail Stretch 

Testing IMAP and setting up Roundcube webmail

Testing IMAP access You have already finished the configuration of Dovecot so fetching emails using the IMAP protocol will already

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ISPmail Stretch 

Setting up Dovecot

This chapter of our journey leads us to Dovecot – the software that… gets emails from Postfix and saves them to disk

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ISPmail Stretch 

Making Postfix send emails to Dovecot

In a previous chapter we made sure that Postfix knows which emails it is allowed to receive. Now what to

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ISPmail Stretch 

Making Postfix get its information from the MySQL database

In the previous chapter you have created the SQL database schema and inserted some data to play with. The entry point for all

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ISPmail Stretch 

Preparing the database

Now it’s time to prepare the MariaDB database that stores information controlling your mail server. In the process you will have to

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ISPmail Stretch 

Creating a TLS encryption key and certificate

(If you are unfamiliar with the abbreviation “TLS“: it is the successor to SSL but works one the same principle.)

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ISPmail Stretch 

Install the software packages

Your server should now be booted up and ready. So you can login at the console or via SSH (secure

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ISPmail Stretch 

Install Debian Stretch 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 Stretch 

Types of email domains

This is the pretty boring but at the same time very important part of the tutorial. Do not skip it.

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ISPmail Stretch 

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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