I am here to learn.  I also want a stable mail server for my own personal use.  Not a huge thing.  1 user.  Me.

So far, the installation was simple and fast.

As soon as I overcome the self signed cert issue, life will be great!!

Jeff

I host some low traffic websites for various reasons. Mostly hobby related. I raise dairy goats and have a farm page I host. My neighbor has an astrophotography hobby and I host his as well. I also have a personal blog for my own purposes.

Some time ago I put together an iRedMail server to get emails for my farm page and my blog and a couple of others.

All of my separate pages and things are done in their own VirtualBox VM for separation. I have one for VPN server access so I can get in from the outside. One for Apache2 reverse proxy services. I have one dedicated VirtualBox VM for each website I host. I have no plans to change this strategy, as it makes management more of an individual page/service thing...which brings my up to my current conundrum.

iRedMail 1.6.6 worked right out of the box for my first email domain. Adding others was a pain, but doable. Getting the DNS entries so that Google doesn't mark them as spam is the biggest hurdle so far.

So far.

Until now. I have NOT been keeping with the upgrades, so I'm a little out of date. I am building a new VM to replace my mail server.

It is:
Debian 12
iRedMail 1.7.4
MySql
RoundCube web interface

Where should I look for the most straightforward migration path? I wish to keep my domains and users, but I can re-enter them at this point. All passwords are known and there aren't that many.

I have read somewhere that once the domains and users are recreated, all that is necessary is to copy the files under the path /var/vmail/vmail1 recursively to get the physical email files in. My question is, how are these then integrated into the database, or are they? I.e. "Does Roundcube get its folder/contents information from the actual files or from the database?

Anyway, thanks for creating this product and giving us options other than playing with the big boys...Yahoo, Microsoft, Google..

Wayne Stuart
waynestuart.com
waynestuart@waynestuart.com

I find it fast and easy to deploy.
I like the features it provides.
Obviously, I like that it's free to manage.

I also like that it's generally easy to troubleshoot.

zimbra community  8.8.15 is still commonly used. I think kind of converter (users and mails) would be in demand

This is a good idea.

Our focus is iRedMail Enterprise Edition ("EE" for short) right now, and will release first stable release (v1.0.0) before Jan 15. We may take a look at this later, but cannot promise anything here. And we would like to get a production server for (migration) testing if possible.

We do no spam/mass emailing of any kind.  The spam tagging apparently has to do with other users on the same shared host and apparently the IP address rotation that is feature of shared hosting environments.

What we're hoping to achieve with self-hosted is the ability to have more control over what gets tagged as spam incoming/outgoing, as well as white- and black-listing.

Still testing, so time will tell, but any clues as to whether we're on the right path with iRedMail are welcome.

I have send two mails to support asking for 1 month  trial, also posted on forum. What is the TAT for any ticket.

Presently we are using ZImbra 8.8.15 community. can i migrate users with password to Iredmail pro.?

Replied your email.

Good Morning.

I have send two mails to support asking for 1 month  trial, also posted on forum. What is the TAT for any ticket.

Presently we are using ZImbra 8.8.15 community. can i migrate users with password to Iredmail pro.?

after  seeing all the response , am eager to use it.  Now am using zimbra community  8.8.15. Can i import  ldap data  from  zimbra  to Ired mail Pro.

what about TAT  for paid support?

I have sent two mail asking for 1 month trail, no one replied. expecting reply.

regards

I am moving my data back to self hosted. I have since migrated off of google drive and photos with a synology nas, and have moved my mail over from google to iredmail.

I really appreciate the efforts undertaken in this project. I would like to contribute in a small way, maybe $20 a year or so just as a thank you for the small time folks like myself.

As a side note, i can tell you after operating and self hosting all of these applications, it has made me better at my job as well (i work in info tech).

I am interested in iRedMail because, after having been involved in administering Linux systems since 1996, I am tired of having to spend two weeks to setup a fully featured functioning mail system. Having done this for 14 years, I have seen the increase in difficulty of getting a dozen different programs to work together in order to have a fully functioning mail system that supports many many features.

A bare basic install seems simple; install qmail, link it with spamassassin and a virus scanner, setup a POP3 and IMAP server, and put up SquirrelMail or RoundCube and you're ready to go. But in reality it's a major pain the butt. All of these products are developed by different people and, on varying distros, provide a challenge when there are different paths and configurations and different flags passed to the compiler, etc. Throw on top of that the need for authentication and LDAP and multiple webmail systems and a calendar and virtual users and virtual domains and many other things, and it quickly becomes overwhelming.

It's easy then to just purchase a commercial all-in-one setup, and I would do that at times depending on the install. Another good free full-featured setup was 'qmail toaster' but there are a lot of issues compiling and configuring this on some systems as it's not as actively developed (if not at all) as it should be.

BOTTOM LINE --

I chose iRedMail because it is actively developed, is quick to configure and setup (relatively) and even has a Linux distribution with it pre-installed ready to go out of the box, and is full featured. I have had some issues with it but it's mainly because I am unfamiliar with postfix. I am learning how to properly modify postfix and amavisd and policyd configuration files and it is becoming easier.

If iRedMailAdmin was more featured in order to allow easy configuration of postfix, policyd and amavisd (as well as spamassassin rules for it), it would be much better. Also an easy e-mail alias/forward system would be nice. Qmail Toaster did all of this. I'd like to see it here!

Thanks for the great product and keep it up. If I continue to find use for it I'll buy the professional package/setup. $99 is very fair!

Thanks,

Brandon

This message from Brandon sums up all that I had to say, word to word.