There is a newer issue of thie ISPmail guide available if you are using Debian Jessie! If you want to run a mail server on your Debian server at home then you are probably on a dynamic IP address (one that changes once a day) from your internet provider. The problem with dynamic IP addresses […]
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There is a newer issue of thie ISPmail guide available if you are using Debian Jessie! About MX entries So now you have your working mail server. But how do emails find you? The answer lies in the most important service on the internet: DNS. Assume that you are the owner of the gmail.com domain.
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There is a newer issue of thie ISPmail guide available if you are using Debian Jessie! In a previous chapter we made sure that Postfix knows which emails it’s allowed to receive. Now what to do with the email? It has to be stored to disk. Usually that’s done by Postfix itself which comes with
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There is a newer issue of thie ISPmail guide available if you are using Debian Jessie! Let us now configure Dovecot which will do several things for us: get emails from Postfix and save them to disk execute user-based “sieve” filter rules (can be used to put away emails to different folders) allow the user to
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There is a newer issue of thie ISPmail guide available if you are using Debian Jessie! Now it’s time to prepare the MySQL database that will store information that controls your mail server. In the process you will have to enter SQL queries. You may enter them on the ‘mysql’ command line. But if you
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There is a newer issue of thie ISPmail guide available if you are using Debian Jessie! (If you are unfamiliar with the abbreviation “TLS“: it is the successor to SSL.) The internet has become an evil place. Many pieces of hardware and software as well as technical staff sits between your computer and your mail
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There is a newer issue of thie ISPmail guide available if you are using Debian Jessie! By now your Debian Wheezy server should be readily installed. Now it’s time to install the necessary Debian packages to make it an actual mail server. It is a good idea to install all missing security updates first: apt-get
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There is a newer issue of thie ISPmail guide available if you are using Debian Jessie! If you already have a server with Debian on it and cannot or don’t want to reinstall then feel free to skip this page. This may be the case if you are using a (virtual) root server from a
There is a newer issue of thie ISPmail guide available if you are using Debian Jessie! Let us start with some basic theory on email domains that Postfix can handle. Postfix distinguishes between three kinds of domains. This is a very important concept that you need to understand. Probably half of the support request of
There is a newer issue of thie ISPmail guide available if you are using Debian Jessie! Software your mail server will use The configuration described here uses these software components (the versions are Debian Wheezy’s default versions): Debian (Release 7.0 – Code name “wheezy”) Postfix (2.9.6) for receiving incoming emails from the internet and for forwarding