Welcome to Mail Server on Ubuntu 18.04 Part 5. This is the fifth part of a series of blog posts. We will be adding Roundcube, allowing your users to access their email over a secure HTTPS connection from any browser. We will also briefly talk about monitoring.
Mail Server on Ubuntu 18.04 Part 1
Mail Server on Ubuntu 18.04 Part 2
Mail Server on Ubuntu 18.04 Part 3
Mail Server on Ubuntu 18.04 Part 4
If you want to see loads of stats for your web site try Installing AWstats on Ubuntu 18.04. You can get the number of visitors, Which OS or Browser they used.
Installing AWstats on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and some additional packages necessary for the geo and net IP location stats.
Using chrony on Ubuntu 18.04 will show how to setup chrony for clients and servers within your LAN. Chrony replaces NTP which in now depreciated. Using chrony on Ubuntu 18.04 will show how to setup chrony for clients and servers within your LAN.
Chrony is an implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP). It is used to keep the system clocks of PCs synchronized with the clock of NTP servers. It can also be used to setup your own NTP server to provide time for your LAN. Chrony replaces ntp and ntpdate which are now deprecated.
Setting up NTP on Ubuntu 16.04 is a really quick post, as most Linux (or M$ Windows) installations will use/need an NTP server to keep the time in sync with other machines on the LAN. Services such as DNS, DHC, LDAP, email, Mythtv, syncing data between machines to name just a few.
Welcome to Mail Server on Ubuntu 18.04 Part 4. This is the fourth part of a series of blog posts. We will be adding some extra checking to postfix. This will allow you to effectively blacklist some domains and email addresses. We will also be adding checks for properly formatted domain names and checking the IP address against their DNS lookup.
Mail Server on Ubuntu 18.04 Part 1
Mail Server on Ubuntu 18.04 Part 2
Mail Server on Ubuntu 18.04 Part 3
Welcome to Mail Server on Ubuntu 18.04 Part 3. This is the third part of a series of blog posts. In this post we will be adding anti-virus and anti-spam along with some other tools to stop spam and viruses getting through to our mailserver.
Mail Server on Ubuntu 18.04 Part 1
Mail Server on Ubuntu 18.04 Part 2
Welcome to Mail Server on Ubuntu 18.04 Part 2. This is the second part of a series of blog posts. The mailserver will use Postfix, Dovecot and Amavis. To see Mail Server on Ubuntu 18.04 Part1 follow the link.
In Mail Server on Ubuntu 18.04 Part 2 we will turn on the ability for any user to send and receive emails once they are known to the system via a MySQL database. This is called using virtual users. We will also turn on the ability to use encrypted connections with TLS.
This is how I got DNSCrypt and dnsmasq on Ubuntu 18.04 working together. dnsmasq is used for local domains and DHCP while we use DNSCrypt as our forwarding DNSD server. To quote from the OpenDNS website “DNSCrypt is a piece of lightweight software that everyone should use to boost online privacy and security. It works by encrypting all DNS traffic between the user and OpenDNS, preventing any spying, spoofing or man-in-the-middle attacks.”.
I wanted to create a test networking lab Ubuntu on 18.04 to try out configurations without having to hack my real LAN about. I decided to use VirtualBox virtual machines as the software is freely available and works with Linux very nicely. For the network in the test networking lab Ubuntu on 18.04 we will need to separate from our own normal LAN. VirtualBox provides this in of the box. We simply set the network interfaces to use “Internal Network”. This way any gust VMs on the host within the internal network can only see each other.
Welcome to Mail Server on Ubuntu 18.04 Part 1. This is the first part of a series of blog posts. It will use Postfix, dovecot and amavis. Setting up a mail server is a complex project it is one of the most difficult and complex servers to setup. There are many different tools/packages that have to come together before it is working. There are many more packages that can be installed before you have something that is usable in the real world with all the hackers and spammers around.
*Do not follow this blog post on a production server unless you are [crazy|dumb|mad|nutz|stupid] and want to be unemployed!