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- iRedMail version: 0.8.6
- LDAP
- Ubuntu 13.04
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I am running iRedMail, I got some error messages during setup but it seems to work fine, I can login to the webmail.
Hey guys, I am trying to run a small mailserver just for myself at home and the thing is that the installation is pretty well documented but not so much what comes around and after that. I guess this is more targeted to system admin who know what they are doing but I have no idea of domain and mail stuff.
I am actually a bit inpatient and just want to get this thing running to at least be able to receive mail. I have read that I cant send mail without a relay server because everybody will block me with dynamic ip address, but I want to worry about that later.
And short complete noob guide out there?
My guess totally wrong setup is this: (My server is closed to the outside at this point but I still refer to my domain with "example" for security reasons)
I have a domains that I could point to, ns1-ns4.freedns.afraid.org but I thought I test it with their free subdomais first.
At afraid.org I have the example.mooo.com subdomain that points to my IP
and another subdomain that i called examplemx.mooo.com that I setup as a MX record pointing to example.mooo.com
I used that sub-domain that is actually the mx record for my iRedmail mail setup as root domain. Wrong right?
Then I have a virtual domain that I just made up setup during iRedmail setup. Was this a mistake? I only know virtual hosts from apache and for localhost they work fine no matter how I call them. Is this the same thing or something totally different?
In general i very happy that I found iredmail because I was about to give up on setting up my own mailserver, I never imagined that a mailserver is that complicated and actually needs like 10 programs meld together with the right configs.
But is there any place where I can quick learn the basics? Without loosing 3 days?
Also I like to know if there is anything should care about or know when hosting a server on a dynamic dns. There is a provider that takes 1€/m that I could use their relay server to send mail. But its a pretty corparate one that trys to sell you all kinds so I have so so much trust when i look at them.
Their have not even in the expesive plans a MX backup. Cant I setup a backup mx on my own somehow?
PS:
If I understand correctly what I just read somewhere the virtualdomain can just be a subdomain of the main domain and I just need to add it into the /etc/hosts, just like apache virtual hosts. True?
Hey and as a sidenote: I run the bitbucked version on a beaglebone black, i changed the "arml6" from rasberry to the "arml7" or something like that(in config/global) without really knowing if arm = arm, because the BBB has another CPU but looks like it's workine fine.