How to Easily Set up a Full-Fledged Mail Server on Ubuntu 20.04 with iRedMail

LinuxBabe
2 min readFeb 13, 2021

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Setting up your own email server on Linux from scratch is a long and tedious process, a pain in the butt if you are not an advanced user. This tutorial will be showing you how to use iRedMail to quickly set up a full-featured mail server on Ubuntu 20.04, saving you lots of time and headaches.

What is iRedMail?

iRedMail is a shell script that automatically installs and configures all necessary mail server components on your Linux/BSD server, thus eliminating manual installation and configuration. With iRedMail, you can easily create unlimited mailboxes and unlimited mail domains in a web-based admin panel. Mailboxes can be stored in MariaDB/MySQL, PostgreSQL database, or OpenLDAP. The following is a list of open-source software that will be automatically installed and configured by iRedMail.

  • Postfix SMTP server
  • Dovecot IMAP server
  • Nginx web server to serve the admin panel and webmail
  • OpenLDAP, MySQL/MariaDB, or PostgreSQL for storing user information
  • Amavised-new for DKIM signing and verification
  • SpamAssassin for anti-spam
  • ClamAV for anti-virus
  • Roundcube webmail
  • SOGo groupware, providing webmail, calendar (CalDAV), contacts (CardDAV), tasks and ActiveSync services.
  • Fail2ban for protecting SSH
  • mlmmj mailing list manager
  • Netdata server monitoring
  • iRedAPD Postfix policy server for greylisting

Read full tutorial here: https://www.linuxbabe.com/mail-server/ubuntu-20-04-iredmail-server-installation

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