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title: Welcome to ISPmail – a free guide to your own mail server
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description: ISPmail – a free guide to your own mail server
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template: splash
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hero:
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tagline:
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ISPmail is a free but extensive do-it-yourself guide to help you build a fully-functional mail server from 100%
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open-source components. It is based on Debian GNU/Linux. Light enough for your friends and family. Or powerful
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enough for professional use.
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image:
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file: /public/large-pingu.jpg
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actions:
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- text: Let's build your mail server…
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link: /ispmail-bookworm
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icon: rocket
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banner:
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content: |
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Debian 13 has been released. An updated ISPmail guide is in the making. Stay tuned.
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---
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import { Card, CardGrid } from "@astrojs/starlight/components";
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## Features
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<CardGrid stagger>
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<Card title="Educational" icon="open-book">
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This is not a simple copy/paste walkthrough. You will learn the technical details of email exchange on the internet.
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And you will understand how the different pieces of software work and interact.
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</Card>
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<Card title="Free" icon="heart">
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This guide is a not-for-profit fun project. You only need to get an internet domain and a cheap virtual server
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(~5€/$ per month). Powered by the desire to make the internet a bit more decentralized.
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</Card>
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<Card title="Since 2003" icon="seti:clock">
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This guide has been maintained for over 20 years. Made for nerds who want a boring stable mail server that just
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works with little maintenance. But with all the features that make it fun.
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</Card>
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<Card title="You’re not alone" icon="comment">
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You won’t get stuck. Every page of this guide has a comment section to ask questions and discuss the topic. For
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real-time help you can join our [support chat on Matrix](https://riot.im/app/#/room/#ispmail:matrix.org).
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</Card>
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<Card title="Open source" icon="linux">
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All software that is used is completely open-source. No costs. Your new friends are Debian, Postfix, Dovecot,
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Roundcube, MariaDB, Apache and rspamd.
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</Card>
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<Card title="Standards" icon="star">
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Only standard protocols are used. IMAP, POP3, SMTP and HTTPS. No proprietary protocols. No vendor lock-in. No public
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cloud.
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</Card>
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</CardGrid>
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## What readers say
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- Kostja:
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I have been using the workaround.org ISPMAIL tutorials for many years and still do it every time I upgrade my
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mailserver. It is a neat and straightforward approach and saves me a lot of time I otherwise would have to spend
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reading manuals, finding new packages and trying things out. Everything is on the point and I get the information I
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need, that’s perfect. Thank you very much for you great work.
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- David:
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I just finished setting up my ~fifth ispmail server (squeeze, 2x stretch, now bullseye) and this time I didn’t even
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bother to do the recommended checks after each step because I knew that after following (and unterstanding) your
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tutorial, the server would go like a Swiss watch. I wasn’t disappointed. Everything works and again I learned a lot.
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Thank you for putting that much effort into the tutorials!
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- Yannis:
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Just wanted to say thanks for your amazing work. Not only proved up to date and accurate technically, but it is also
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presented in a very educational way. It really is high-quality learning material.
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- Ezerotszaz:
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I’m finally done setting up two of these mail servers – for myself and also for a friend. I struggled a lot when I was
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doing it for the first time, but after days of work it is done, it is working properly, I can send(and receive..) from
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four different addresses and I could not be happier! Thank you so much for the insane amount of work that you put into
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this awesome guide.
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- Impli:
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It had been a long time since I had installed a mail server and the few tutorials I could find were not explicit. But
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your guide is very well done. Complete and very detailed. With even some technical information as a bonus for the
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curious.
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- Niko:
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I really like this guide. I was able to learn some new stuff and setup a nice configured server. I now have a server
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running 2 domains and several user accounts. It took me a few evenings of my spare time and i think it was worth it.
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Thank you very much for your guidance!
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- Michael:
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Great guide! Thanks! Very structured and clear! It took me about 2 hours to have a fully funktional email server
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including ISPmail on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2 with Raspbian GNU/Linux 11.
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- David:
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Thank you so very much Christoph. I now have a successful mail server running on Linode, and it has all the pieces you
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have detailed here. It works very well. Best of all, I understand how the pieces hang together.
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- Shukuru:
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This guide is pure gold. As a professional developer with some sysadmin skills I was able to set up my first email
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server in a week. I learn a lot about how emails works and I can now take control on my privacy. Thanks.
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- Panos:
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I am proud to be able to thank the author of this series of Guides publicly, for all the unbelievable work he has
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done, all these years. To anyone wishing to truly understand what running a mail server is about, this is the proper
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place to be.
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- Cody:
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Seen this guide a few times before and found it to be the most comprehensive one available.
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- Anthony:
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Thanks again for such a comprehensive guide. I’ve been using it for several years and I appreciate the updates for the
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new versions. I just did a “speed run" on a test mail server/domain and it took about 2 hours. TLS/DKIM/SPF are all
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passing too! I’ve gotten a lot of practice with your guide over the last few versions, so I would hope that I can
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complete it quickly.
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- James:
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Thanks Christoph, For your work running this site and the ISPmail guides. I’ve been following them for each Debian
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release since Wheezy. I use my mail server primarily for my personal email address and also have a handful of friends
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using it. Works great.
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- Robbert:
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I have been using this guide for 10 years now with great success. I truly appreciate how you explain each step you do.
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This makes it very easy to follow, and also easy to deviate from the guide if desired. Thanks a lot.
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- Nicole:
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I used this guide already with my first mail servers I set up 15 years ago (round about, I’m not quite sure). It
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always worked fine and is a very big help! I have Debian servers with 5 – 30 users only, including one community
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project where also newsletters (i.e. many mails) are sent. Today I set up my newest mail server and all works fine. I
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want to thank Christoph for his great work and support and hope the guide will never end 🙂
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- Francisco:
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Thank you Christoph. I’ve just setup my mail server and i’m very happy with it. I’ve learned a lot.
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