I tried to install the free edition of poste.io, a really nice mailserver, and struggled a little bit. After some try&error I figured out how to install and setup and in case somebody else finds himself in the same situation.
First I deployed a Vultr Local Storage, because we don't need super fast SSD-Systems for Email.
In case you go with the 512MB RAM plan from vultr, the Memory isn't enough to handle all the processes poste.io is running. So we have to increase the swap-size.
Login via ssh as root
disable all swap-files
swapoff -a
create a driectory that holds the swap file
mkdir -p /var/cache/swap/
Create a new Swapfile with 4 GByte
dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/cache/swap/myswap bs=1M count=4096
Restrict access
chmod 0600 /var/cache/swap/myswap
format as swap
mkswap /var/cache/swap/myswap
Announce to system
swapon /var/cache/swap/myswap
Add to fstab for autoload
echo -e "/var/cache/swap/myswap none swap sw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
Now reboot the system and login again via ssh
We are going to install some Packages we need.
add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa -y apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 58118E89F3A912897C070ADBF76221572C52609D echo -e "deb https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-trusty main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list apt-get install linux-image-extra-$(uname -r) apt-get update
apt-get install git apt-get install aufs-tools apt-get install cgroup-lite apt-get install docker-engine
We are now installing poste.io
mkdir /opt/posteio cd /opt/posteio curl https://poste.io/free | bash
After the installation is completed poste.io tells you to run
/usr/bin/docker run --name poste -p 25:25 -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -p 110:110 -p 143:143 -p 465:465 -p 587:587 -p 993:993 -p 995:995 -v /opt/poste/data:/data -t analogic/poste.io:latest
or something similar. Just do it.
Now you can connect to your poste.io installation via webbrowser on the ip-adress your server is using.
Of course you have to set an A-Record and MX-Records for your new Mailserver.
To run poste.io again after you had to reboot your system, run
docker start poste
Background-Information
- Docker: https://footyntech.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/what-d...