Linux Mail Server: Exim4

Whispers Mail Server

Stack

• Web server (Apache)
• Database server (MySQL)
• Email server (MTA) (Exim4)
• IMAP server (Dovecot)
• Webmail server (Roundcube)

Install

• apt-get install apache2-mpm-prefork
  • (Some of these email servers require PHP; PHP is crappy and requires mpm-prefork (the ‘slow’ version of Apache))
• apt-get install mysql-client
  • (should auto-install something like: mysql-common + mysql-client-5.5)
• apt-get install mysql-server
  • (should auto-install something like: mysql-server-5.5 + mysql-server-core-5.5)
• apt-get install exim4
• apt-get install exim4-base
• apt-get install exim4-config
• apt-get install exim4-daemon-heavy
  • (there’s an “exim4-mysql” that might be sufficient to replace this, but I gave up: there are way too many exim4 packages, and no help for installing the “correct” set, so … just pick this and get the lot!)
• apt-get install dovecot-core
• apt-get install dovecot-imapd
• apt-get install dovecot-mysql
• apt-get install roundcube
• apt-get install roundcube-core
• apt-get install roundcube-mysql

Setup

DNS

You should know about this already: you need an “MX” record on your DNS server, and it needs to point to your main server where you’ll run your email, web, etc.

Apache

/etc/apache2/sites-available/webmail.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin rafael@herrerosolis.com
    Redirect permanent / https://webmail.herrerosolis.com/
#    DocumentRoot /var/www/rafael
    ServerName webmail.herrerosolis.com
    ServerAlias webmail.herrerosolis.com
    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/webmail/error.log

    # Posible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit.
    # alert, emerg.

    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/webmail/access.log combined
</virtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerAdmin rafael@herrerosolis.com
    DocumentRoot /var/lib/roundcube
    ServerName webmail.herrerosolis.com
    ServerAlias webmail.herrerosolis.com

    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/webmail/error.log

    # Posible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit.
    # alert, emerg.
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/webmail/access.log combined
    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/herrerosolis.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/herrerosolis.key
</virtualHost>

http://bradthemad.org/tech/notes/exim_cheatsheet.php

STARTTLS

https://wiki.debian.org/Exim

Troubleshooting

exim4 -bP | grep tls_

test with:

sudo apt-get install swaks
swaks -a -tls -q HELO -s gollum.redactate.com -au test -ap '<>'

1. Choose internet site
2. Choose domain

configuration (mp4)