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MailCow Email Server

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Mailcow is a free, open-source, full-featured mail server solution that uses Docker containers. It aims to provide a simple-to-setup, fully-featured mail server stack with a modern and intuitive web interface. It can handle SMTP, IMAP, and POP3 traffic, and includes additional services like an Anti-Spam system, a webmail client (SOGo), and a configuration panel.

MailCow is fully production ready and also capable for enterprise deployments.

Some of mailcow's features include:
  • Dockerized implementation, which allows for easy deployment and isolation of services.
  • Full support for SMTP, IMAP, and POP3 protocols.
  • An integrated SOGo webmail client.
  • Anti-spam and anti-virus filtering using Rspamd and ClamAV.
  • DKIM/ARC signing of outgoing emails.
  • A friendly and modern web interface for server administration.

Visit MailCow official page at this link.

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Prerequisites

For succesfull installation and proper email delivery, you need to have following:

  1. VPS server with at least 4GB of system memory

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  1. Unblocked email ports from your server provider
  2. Secure system
  3. Spare domain
  4. Basic docker knowledge

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Video Walkthrough

Installation

Follow these installation steps for your deployment.

Docker engine

First, we will need to install docker engine on our brand new server.

Visit official installation guide.

Never install docker from other sources or custom repositiories.

MailCow

  1. Navigate to opt dir on your server
cd /opt
  1. Clone MailCow repository
git clone https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized
  1. Navigate to mailcow-dockerized folder
cd mailcow-dockerized

Before you generate your config, make sure to have DNS A record and MX record already pointed to mailserver!

  1. Generate your config by executing following command:
./generate_config.sh
  1. Edit mailcow.conf if needed
nano mailcow.conf
  1. Start with installation
docker compose up -d
  1. Visit your instance on your domain & configure to your likings.

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