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Re: Why are you interested in iRedMail?

Easy, fast, and it works. Before I found and installed iRedMail, my custom-built mail server system had suddenly stopped working (suspect cyrus broke). I don't have the kind of time I used to have to play uber computer geek any more, and iRedMail was a lifesaver. Initially, I tried it on Gentoo (my preferred distro), but it didn't work because apt-get is not a Gentoo package, but I set up Ubuntu Server for this.

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Re: Why are you interested in iRedMail?

Zimbra dropped support for my architecture so I went looking for alternatives. This seems to be on better licensing grounds besides.

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Re: Why are you interested in iRedMail?

Easy install and use. Great support in forum smile

54 (edited by mat8861 2015-02-23 06:22:23)

Re: Why are you interested in iRedMail?

Don't need to be a unix expert to setup, easy to follow guidance provided and for those looking for basic stuff  it's the best opensource mail server.

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Re: Why are you interested in iRedMail?

Easy initial setup
Support is out of this world
Easy to maintain, if you didn't do a bunch of customizations
Steady update cycle

I host 2438 domains with 17496 users

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From the solutions that I check to migrate my old MDaemon and zimbra servers iRedMail seems to be the most complete of them, even when I'm using the free version.

It's super fast to deploy and it uses on the backend all the tools that I was used to (postfix, sql databases, dovecot, etc.) This last point was crucial to me. When my zimbra server came down NOBODY ON EARTHcould fix it. Come on, zimbra its a black box, and it uses a lot of esources. Thats another advantage of iRedMail, its super light and I dont have any professional servers at hand.

And of course the online support its great. Every time that I posted some issue, I got a response in less than 30 minutes.

Bottom line Iredmail rocks and it works great for me!!!!

Greetings from Cuba

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Re: Why are you interested in iRedMail?

It's easy to deploy, scales well, is easy to support, and all of the hard configuration work is already done by the install script! I've tried multiple times to do a "from-the-ground-up" install with a similar configuration, and it's always been a ton of headaches, and a lot of trial, error, and reading manuals from dusk until dawn, and back to dusk again.

I run a small mail server with 4 virtual domains, iRedMail, phpList with a promotional mailing list, and I've customized it by using OpenDKIM instead of Amavis for my DKIM signatures, but other than that, it's pretty stock, except for Apache virtual hosts, and rbl blacklist checking that I've added. It works beautifully. I couldn't ask for more.

There were other options out there like Citadel, but I hated the interface, and the general configuration, and wanted a true Postfix / Dovecot setup with a minimal amount of headaches. That's where iRedMail comes into the picture. The fact that it's based on open-source packages, and free software is amazing. I can accomplish in 15 minutes, what it used to take a whole day or more to do manually. Even then, I'd have to do extensive testing, and configuration changes before deployment.

While I still end up doing configuration changes, and tweaking settings before deployment, I feel a bit safer knowing that I haven't overlooked something in a configuration setting for postfix or dovecot that leaves me with a gaping security hole, open relay issues, or a ton of backscatter to deal with. iRedMail has been absolutely wonderful for me. It's been rock-solid, and reliable, and the community / forums have been great as well. I always end up getting the answers that I'm looking for in the forums. I really appreciate this community, and iRedMail in general!

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Re: Why are you interested in iRedMail?

Pretty much all of the above.  I have used postfix+dovecot for years.  My complaint was that it was all CLI managed, and invariably required all kinds of tweaks and tuning to work properly.  I tried several 'all in one' packages (linux and windows).  The former were annoying, because they inevitably seemed to be bloated groupware/gateway/etc packages, whereas the latter required a bloated server 2008 or somesuch, with all kinds of crap I didn't need or want.  iRedMail is perfect for me - I did a minimal lamp+mail ubuntu 14.04 install and threw iRedMail on top, and I'm good to go!

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Does anybody have competitive analysis for iRedMail with other Service provider, if yes kindly share it will be of big help.

Regards,
Arvind Singh

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Re: Why are you interested in iRedMail?

I want my own email server! I want to better understand how email works, and if I ever get the gumption to be a consultant, I'd just like all my IT under me.

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Re: Why are you interested in iRedMail?

Hi ;
I use iredmail  because it's open source and easy to install , stablen great customer support via forum.
Thank's for the iredmail team for this  project :-)

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Re: Why are you interested in iRedMail?

With iRedMail I finally have the possibility to provide to the company that I work for, a corporate professional email server with a very low budget.

- Easier and faster installation/deployment than trying to make it by my own;
- The pre-configuration is top notch;
- Safe, fast and stable;
- Lots of tools to cover almost any needs;
- Great support provided by the developer (I didn't have any experience with the community support itself, so I can't say anything about it, but reading other testimonials it leads to believe that it is great, too).

I'm still in the "beta fase" with my setup, so I'm pretty sure that I'll be addding more reasons to this post.

Thank you for this brilliant solution.

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Why am I interested in iRedMail?

1) fast deployment
2) easy to customize to meet most needs
3) great community
4) ZhangHuangbin seems like a hell of a guy smile
5) all components are open source and well documented
6) flexible enough to scale/cluster to meet high demand and availability
7) Sogo is a nice touch and is on it's way to becoming a nice MS exchange killer
8) Works great with FreeBSD

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Re: Why are you interested in iRedMail?

I happened to found it in Google search big_smile and tried it though I'm a newbie and don't have much experience in mail server management, it's worth at it. I'm having a problem right now re: can send mails to other domains but can't received from them, I will try to dig the solution for it on my own roll

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Re: Why are you interested in iRedMail?

juninquig512 wrote:

can send mails to other domains but can't received from them, I will try to dig the solution for it on my own

Make sure you have correct DNS records for your mail domain names. FYI:
http://www.iredmail.org/docs/setup.dns.html

Please always create a new forum topic for your own question, do not hijack/break this thread.

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I will try to figure out all about that MX and A records which sounds very unfamiliar for me. BTW, can you give me a link on how to change the dummy domain name I used into a valid and registered domain name? It will surely affect my RoundCube and iRedAdmin accounts for sure. Thank you so much Sir for your reply on my post. Keep it up!

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juninquig512 wrote:

can you give me a link on how to change the dummy domain name I used into a valid and registered domain name?

Search "hostname" here:
http://www.iredmail.org/docs/

Again, please create a new topic for tech questions/issues.

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ZhangHuangbin wrote:
juninquig512 wrote:

can you give me a link on how to change the dummy domain name I used into a valid and registered domain name?

Search "hostname" here:
http://www.iredmail.org/docs/

Again, please create a new topic for tech questions/issues.

I'm sorry I'm just new here. Thanks for the reply.

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I'm going to set up iRedMail because i want my own personal mail server since I just registered my domain recently. I also want to try to get away from using Googles services for such things as Mail.

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OpenBSD + Postfix +Dovecor + MySQL is winner combination for me!

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I've been using Postfix on FreeBSD since 2003. But migrating my windows based mail store to Dovecot/SquirrelMail was a slow painful unsuccessful process. Port upgrades could break my system. Kept running 2 servers for years.
Everything turned around when I discovered iRedMail!
1. Very easy to deploy. Installed and tested first on a VM. Then installed and deployed onto a small quad core workstation. Migrating the mbox to Maildir was a small challenge, along with learning and customizing Roundcube.
2. Has all the features I need
3. Very stable.
4. Supports my preferred OS/DB/Mailstore. Roundcube is great!
5. Great support via the forum and docs.
Although I can upgrade to the current version, for me it'll probably be easier to do a clean install on another box and migrate.
Thank you Zhang!

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Re: Why are you interested in iRedMail?

I use Iredmail for quickly configuration.
Simply, easy and open-source smile

I use IredMail Free edition for me or only people.
I use IredMail Free edition for small business (business not need blacklist ....).
I use IredMail Pro for small/medium business.
For clustering mail i use Zimbra.

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relcoin wrote:

For clustering mail i use Zimbra.

Would you mind sharing how much Zimbra cluster costs?

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@zhang, essay deployment , and security , dkim will come with installation , form support , web mail loging using sogo .




Regards,
Shufil

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Why are you interested in iRedMail? write down your opinions below please smile

  1. Easy and fast to deploy without pain?

  2. Full-featured?

  3. Stable?

  4. (one of) the right way to build an open source mail server solution? Most components used in iRedMail are provided by Linux distributions officially. it means iRedMail users can get software update support as long time as the distribution itself.

  5. Great customer support via forum? Installation, migration, intergration.

  6. the project is being supported and actively worked on. @gscott187

  7. have the full participation of the technical community and hence knowledge base benefits. @gscott187

  8. It uses mainstream, tried and tested components. @gscott187

All of the above, is the easy answer. I've lost nights of sleep playing around with email. Web servers are simple. Integrated web server with fully compliant email solutions - complicated beyond most peoples comprehension. It seems like a simple task, and isn't hard to get basic mail sending happen, but to get send and receive, compliant DKIM mail for multiple users and domains hosted upon any single server -- prepare to lose a lot of sleep.

cPanel or Plesk are one solution, but that costs you every month / year, ongoing. iRedMail, even buying the pro version once, it just keeps on working based on tried and tested linux defaults. Add some minor tweaks, and you have a low RAM, DKIM compliant mail server.

The biggest PLUS of iredmail is that it actually caters the latest NGINX, MariaDB and PHP versions. You can add the NGINX and MariaDB .repo's before install iredmail, then copy the php-fpm settings, remove PHP 5.x, install PHP 7.x, reset the config files and you now have a super stable, modern software, fully compliant email / web server solution WITHOUT THE BLOAT that cPanel, Plesk and others force upon you.

Nothing short of amazing work here.

Thank you honestly can't be said enough.