summary iRedOS Installation Guide

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Get Installation Media

• Download lastest version of iRedOS iso image from Mirror site, file size is about 420M： http://www.iredmail.org/iRedOS/

• Check md5 before you go further.

  • You can use WinMD5 (free software) on Windows to validate MD5 value.
  • You can use 'md5sum' command on Linux: ```

    md5sum iRedOS-0.1.2-i386.iso

* You can use 'md5' command on BSD:

md5 iRedOS-0.1.2-i386.iso

```

• If md5 check is pass, use Nero/K3B/cdrecord or other tools to burn the ISO image for operating system installation.

iRedOS Installation Details

Note: Please refer to */root/iRedMail.tips* for all related configure files after you complete installation.

• Use the CD you burned to boot your server, and start it from CDROM. It will show the welcome screen:

• Type 'Enter', it will prompt for hard disk partition:

• After you disk partition, you should configure network setting and hostname.

  Note: Hostname must be Fully qualified domain name, e.g. mail.iredmail.org, www.example.com, etc.

• Time Zone:

• root password.

  Warning: It will start to format hard disk and install packages after you click 'Next'.

• Installing packages:

• It will start iRedMail installation wizard after system installation complete:

• Welcome page of iRedMail installation wizard:

• Choose the directory which used to store users' mailbox.

  Warning: It will take many disk space if users store their mail on mail server, e.g. users use webmail only or use IMAP protocol in their mail user agent only.

• Choose backend to store virtual domains and virtual users.

  Note: Please choose the one you are familiar. Here we use MySQL for example.

• Set MySQL root password:

• Set MySQL account 'vmailadmin' password.

  Note: vmailadmin is used for manage all virtual domains & users, so that you don't need MySQL root privileges.

• Set first virtual domain. e.g. iredmail.org, example.com, etc.

• Set admin user for first virtual domain you set above. e.g. postmaster.

• Set password for admin user you set above.

• Set first normal user. e.g. www.

• Set password for normal user you set above.

• Enable SPF Validation, DKIM signing/verification or not.

  Note:

  • We recommended you set SPF dns record for your domain not matter you choose SPF valication feature or not.
  • If you enable DKIM signing and verification feature, you must set DKIM dns record for your domain.

• Enable managesieve service or not. It's used for your mail user to customize mail filter rules, vacation, mail forwarding. It's recommended.

• Enable POP3, POP3S, IMAP, IMAPS services or not.

  Note: If you don't enable one of these features, it will install 'procmail' program for local mail deliver.

• Choose your prefer webmail programs.

  Tip: If you use OpenLDAP as backend above, Roundcube, Horde webmail will use OpenLDAP as global LDAP address book by default.

• Choose optional components. It's recommended you choose all.
  • phpMyAdmin: web-based MySQL database management.
  • Awstats: apache and postfix log file analyzer.
  • Mailgraph: simple mail statistics RRDtool frontend for Postfix and Sendmail that produces daily, weekly, monthly and yearly graphs of received/sent and bounced/rejected mail.

• If you choose Awstats as log analyzer, you will be prompted to set a username and password.

• Set mail alias address for root user in operation system.

  Warning: It must be a validate email addres, and it's not recommended you use the address which hosted in your mail server.

• After above settings, it will install and configure packages automaticlly.

• It will return to system installation wizard page when it complete configuration.

• Reboot your system and enjoy.