Maddy Mail Server is an open-source mail server designed for modern email delivery and building powerful email systems. It supports various mail protocols, including SMTP, IMAP, and ESMTP. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the installation process of Maddy mail server on Linux Mint latest release.
Before proceeding with the installation, there are a few prerequisites that you need to install first:
It is always essential to start by updating the system to ensure that it is up-to-date. Open the terminal and run the following command to update your Linux Mint system:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
You can install git on your Linux Mint system using the following command:
sudo apt-get install git
Maddy mail server is written in the Go Language, so before installing Maddy, you need to install Golang on your Linux Mint system. You can install Go by running the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install golang-go
Once installed, verify the Golang installation by running the following command:
go version
To clone Maddy mail server from Github, navigate to the terminal and run the following command to clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy.git
After cloning Maddy mail server, change the directory to the maddy folder you just cloned by running the following command:
cd maddy
Next, build and install Maddy by running the following command:
go build . && sudo ./maddy
This command will compile and install the Maddy mail server on your Linux Mint system.
Maddy reads configuration from the /etc/maddy.conf file. To edit the configuration file, run the following command:
sudo nano /etc/maddy.conf
Update the configuration as per your Mail server requirements.
After configuring the mail server, you can start it by running the following command:
sudo systemctl start maddy
Congratulations! You have successfully installed the Maddy mail server on Linux Mint. You can now configure Maddy further to suit your needs as per its documentation.
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