Excision Mail is an open-source, self-hosted email server that provides secure and private email communication. To install Excision Mail on your Fedora server, follow the steps below.
Before you proceed with the installation, make sure your Fedora server meets the following requirements:
First, you need to clone the Excision Mail repository from GitHub. To do this, log in to your server and run the following command in the terminal:
sudo dnf install git
git clone https://github.com/Excision-Mail/Excision-Mail.git
cd Excision-Mail
This will install the git package and clone the Excision Mail repository to your server. Then, navigate to the repository directory.
Excision Mail requires several dependencies to build and run properly. To install them, run the following command:
./setup.sh
This script will install all the necessary packages, including Postgresql, Redis, and Node.js.
After installing dependencies, you need to configure Excision Mail using the config file. To do this, run the following command:
cp .env.example .env
nano .env
This will create a copy of the example config file and open it in the nano editor. Here, you can set your email domain, database details, and other configuration options.
Once you have configured the .env file, save and exit the nano editor by pressing CTRL + X, Y, and ENTER.
After configuring the .env file, you can build and run Excision Mail using the following commands:
npm run build
npm run start
These commands will build and run the server. You should see output in the terminal indicating that Excision Mail is up and running.
Finally, you need to configure the MX (mail exchange) record for your email domain to point to your server's IP address. This will tell other email servers where to deliver mail for your domain.
You can set up an MX record in your domain registrar's DNS settings. Here, you need to set the priority to 10 and the value to your server's IP address.
For example, if your server's IP address is 192.0.2.1 and your email domain is example.com, you would set the MX record as follows:
Host: example.com.
Value: 10 mail.example.com.
Make sure to replace "mail.example.com" with your server's hostname.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install and configure Excision Mail on Fedora Server Latest. With Excision Mail, you can set up a secure and private email server on your own hardware.
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