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How to Install and Configure a Postfix Mail Server with Dovecot on Linux Ubuntu

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Watch this video to find out how to install and configure a Postfix mail server with Dovecot. How to configure the mail server to prevent your emails from falling into the spam folder, how to add DNS entries such as SPF, DKIM and DMARC.
Creating a mail server on Linux-based machines could be one of the most important things that every system administrator should do. If this is the first time you configure your server, you are going to face a lot of aspects that have to be considered during setup. In today’s video, I’ll take you through the initial server configuration. We’ll discover how to install a Postfix mail agent and a Dovecot mail server, and how to configure them for your emails to circulate properly.
Postfix is a free and open-source MTA – mail transfer agent – that can be used to route and deliver electronic mail on a Linux system.
Dovecot is a mail delivery agent created primarily with security in mind. I’ll show you how to configure it as an IMAP or POP3 server.

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📚 Content:
00:00 – Intro
01:41 – What you need for installation
03:04 – Set the host name and create DNS entries for the domain
03:54 – Installing a Postfix mail server on Ubuntu
05:20 – Testing a Postfix mail server on Ubuntu
07:38 – Installing Dovecot IMAP and POP on Ubuntu
09:59 – How to add a DKIM entry

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21 thoughts on “How to Install and Configure a Postfix Mail Server with Dovecot on Linux Ubuntu

  • ❗❗❗ HELP THE UKRAINIAN ARMY ❗❗❗ Make a contribution to charity fund "COME BACK ALIVE" – https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate-en/

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  • had an issue with opendkim conf;
    ExternalIgnoreList refile:/etc/opendkim/TrustedHosts

    InternalHosts refile:/etc/opendkim/TrustedHosts

    KeyTable refile:/etc/opendkim/KeyTable

    SigningTable refile:/etc/opendkim/SigningTable

    SignatureAlgorithm rsa-sha256
    # i had to remove the space between refile: and the the path to the file – and that allowed for a successful start with systemctl.

  • sudo postconf -e 'home_mailbox = Maildir' after hitting that the new file is not created on the home derectory

  • 9:35 _dmarc and spf guides are skipped. viewers will never be able to send emails

    Simple and Best Tutorial 😊

  • Salut, comment allez vous ?
    S'il vous plaît j'ai un problème.
    Quand je lance l'installation de postfix
    On me dit impossible de trouver le dossier de postfix.

  • I could get the e-mail working, but couldn't send from the created user "demo" as shown. Where did I miss? Seems to me that at 4:41 (dpkg-reconfigure postfix) it is needed to inform the user at pink screen (recipient) but I could not solve this.

  • This is a topnotch, echelon tutorial. thank you so much for the excellent work.

  • When I try to send the email with sendmail, It never recieve It. Also this is in the logs:
    postfix/smtp[88565]: connect to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[2a00:1450:400c:c03::1b]:25: Connection timed out

    The telnet command "telnet gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 25" times out as well.

  • 6:05 I've tried this step multiple times and i haven't received anything in spam? but i have followed this exactly?

  • It works but cannot send mail via third party smtp, connection refused.. can you assist on that ?

  • Very good tutorial but still some questions to ask.. my advice answer too everybody ( are not hundred ) not only who say good job… my advice.

  • its better to have installed mail client as well.

  • you are such a lifesaver, i learned how email works in my college course so i decided to host my own, but most of tutorials and documentations are tedious and i don't know where to start, thanks for your awesome video

  • Hello and thank for your excellent tutorial! Unfortunately I cannot send mail from an azure vm because of technical limitations, at least on port 25. MS says I should be able to send authenticated mail through port 587 at least.

  • I thank you for this very good tutorial that you put on the internet and solved my problem ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • when using the command sudo systemctl restart dovecot

    sudo: unable to resolve host domain…. No address associated with hostname how to fix it.Please help me

  • Hey, I didn't actually get the part when he added MX and A records. Could someone explain it to me please ?

  • I tried to follow your instruction but stuck at the opendkim tutorial because I got this error:

    May 23 19:18:36 mydomain.local systemd[1]: opendkim.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=78/CONFIG

    May 23 19:18:36 mydomain.local systemd[1]: opendkim.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

    May 23 19:18:36 mydomain.local systemd[1]: Failed to start OpenDKIM Milter.

    May 23 19:18:36 mydomain.local systemd[1]: opendkim.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.

    May 23 19:18:36 mydomain.local systemd[1]: Stopped OpenDKIM Milter.

    May 23 19:18:36 mydomain.local systemd[1]: opendkim.service: Start request repeated too quickly.

    May 23 19:18:36 mydomain.local systemd[1]: opendkim.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

    May 23 19:18:36 mydomain.local systemd[1]: Failed to start OpenDKIM Milter.

    Can you help me?

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