Intro

This guide is more or less a copy of ”Mail Server - Suse 9.3” but running on Ubuntu Hardy Heron Server. Luckily Ubuntu has a huge repository contain gazillian pieces of software and almost all I need. Apt is your friends 8-)

Starting Out

Lets get the server installed. Just follow the install guide and choose what you need (language, keyboard, disk layout, non-root user and such).

When you get to the “Software selection” menu I select “LAMP server” and “OpenSSH server”. You may do otherwise but this gets the needed software in quick.

When asked supply a MySQL root password.

Now we need to install a lot of software to get all this to work:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade (better make sure all those nasty security bugs are handled)
sudo apt-get install postfix postfix-mysql postfix-pcre  libmysqlclient15-dev libssl-dev build-essential libapache2-mod-perl2 libgd-text-perl libgd-graph-perl libgd-graph3d-perl courier-authdaemon courier-imap courier-authlib-mysql

During the install your asked to configure Postfix. Select “Internet Site”, put in your one of your mail domains.

more to come…