How To Setup iRedMail: Build A Full-Featured Mail Server On CentOS 6.5 With Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL

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We're going to set up a free, full-featured mail server on CentOS 6.5, all mail service related components are free and open source, and you have control over your own data. The installation process is extremly easy and smooth.
By following this tutorial, you will have below major software and services ready for production use:
  • Postfix: SMTP service
  • Dovecot: POP3/POP3S, IMAP/IMAPS, Managesieve service
  • MySQL: Storing mail accounts and application data
  • Apache: Web server
  • Amavisd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV: Anti-spam, anti-virus
  • Roundcube: Webmail
  • Fail2ban: scans log files (e.g. /var/log/maillog) and bans IPs that show the malicious signs -- too many password failures, seeking for exploits, etc.
  • iRedAdmin: A basic, free & open source administration panel to manage the mail accounts. Full featured edition is available for purchase here: http://www.iredmail.org/admin_panel.html.
  • Awstats: Apache and Postfix log analyzer
  • phpPgAdmin: web-based administration tool for MySQL.

Introduce iRedMail




Homepage of iRedMail project is here: http://www.iredmail.org/
iRedMail is:
  • A ZERO COST, fully fledged, full-featured mail server solution. All components are free and open source software.
  • An open source project, released under GPLv2, hosted on BitBucket.
With iRedMail, you can set up a full-featured, zero-cost mail server in less than 2 minutes. iRedMail works on 8 major Linux/BSD distributions:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x, 6.x
  • CentOS 5.x, 6.x
  • Scientific Linux 5.x, 6.x
  • Debian 6.x (Squeeze)
  • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 11.10, 12.04
  • Linux Mint 12 (based on Ubuntu)
  • Gentoo Linux, the latest official release (or daily build) with the latest portage
  • openSUSE 12.1
  • FreeBSD 8.x, 9.x
The latest beta release of iRedMail, 0.8.0-beta4, supports PostgreSQL on RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux (6.x), Ubuntu (11.10, 12.04), FreeBSD.

System Requirements

WARNING: iRedMail is designed to be deployed on a FRESH server system, which means your server does NOT have mail related components installed, e.g. Apache, PostgreSQL, OpenLDAP, Postfix, Dovecot, Amavisd, etc. Otherwise it may override your existing files/configurations althought it will backup files before modifing, and it may be not working as expected.
To install iRedMail, you need:
  • A FRESH, minimal working CentOS Linux 6. The latest 6.5 release is recommended.
  • At least 512MB of memory is required for production use.

    Preparations

    Set A Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) Hostname On Your Server

    We need to set a FQDN hostname before we set up the mail server.
    On CentOS Linux, hostname is set in two files:
    Hostname setting: /etc/sysconfig/network
    Verify the FQDN hostname with command 'hostname -f'. If you change the hostname, please reboot the server to make it work.
    $ hostname -f

    Download The Latest Release Of iRedMail

    Visit Download page to get the latest release of iRedMail. At least iRedMail-0.8.0-beta4 is required.
    Upload iRedMail to your mail server via ftp or scp or whatever method you can use, login to the server to install iRedMail. We assume you uploaded it to directory /root/iRedMail-x.y.z.tar.bz2 (replace x.y.z by the actual version number).
    Uncompress iRedMail tarball:
    # tar xjf iRedMail-0.8.6.

    Start iRedMail Installer

    It's now ready to start iRedMail installer, it will ask you some simple questions, that are all steps to set up a full-featured mail server.
    [root@ansh ~]# cd iRedMail-0.8.6
    [root@ansh iRedMail-0.8.6]# bash iRedMail.sh

    Screenshots Of iRedMail Installation

     Welcome and thanks for your use:

     Specify location to store all mailboxes. Default is /var/vmail/.

    Choose backend used to store mail accounts. We will choose PostgreSQL for example in this tutorial, please choose the one which you're familiar with. You can manage mail accounts with iRedAdmin, our web-based iRedMail admin panel.

    Set password of PostgreSQL admin user. PostgreSQL is used to store mail accounts and application data. e.g. Roundcube webmail, Amavisd-new.

      Add your first mail domain name: 

     Set password of admin account of your first mail domain.

    Choose optional components:

    After these questions, iRedMail installer will ask you to confirm this installation. It will install and configure required packages automatically. Type y or Y and press Enter to confirm, type n or N and press Enter to cancel this installation.

    That's all you need to do to set up a free and full-featured mail server. 

    Access Webmail And Other Web Applications

    After installation has successfully completed, you can access web-based programs if you choose to install them. Replace 'your_server' below by your actual server name or IP address.
  • Webmail: http://your_server/mail/ (or /webmail, /roundcube. HTTPS is available also.)
  • Admin panel: httpS://your_server/iredadmin 
     





    After create user u can login username and passwork with below screen.



    That's IT. Enjoy UR Self my Friends !!!

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