Mail Server

DNS¶

domains¶

(a) alias

_spf.mailw.com¶

Used on all domains CNAME of _spf of domain.

v=spf1 ip4:208.52.188.188 ip4:208.52.188.176 ip4:45.27.170.188 ip4:45.27.170.176 a mx -all exp=fail.spf.mailw.com

FreeBSD Installation¶

Disable sendmail¶

Sendmail is replaced by surgemail.

sudo service sendmail stop
sudo sysrc sendmail_enable="NO"
sudo sysrc sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
sudo sysrc sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sudo sysrc sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
sudo cat /etc/rc.conf
echo "HELLO from ${HOSTNAME}" | mail -s "SMTP Works!" [email protected]

Check errors in /var/log/maillog

You may have to reboot

sudo reboot

Download and install Surgemail¶

First go to surgemail.com and copy the HTTP link for the version.

Example

sudo -i
wget https://netwinsite.com/ftp/surgemail/surgemail_###_freebsd8.tar.gz
gunzip surgemail_###_freebsd8.tar.gz
tar -xf surgemail_###_freebsd8.tar.gz
cd mtemp
./install.sh

Install startup¶

cd /usr/local/surgemail
./surgemail -install_startup

Checking¶

Check the /etc/rc.conf

sudo cat /etc/rc.conf

It should include these lines for mail server operation. Bind name server running, time server running, antivirus running and sendmail disabled.

named_enable="YES"
ntpdate_enable="YES"
ntpdate_hosts="in.pool.ntp.org"
clamav_clamd_enable="YES"
clamav_freshclam_enable="YES"
sendmail_enable="NO"
sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"

Cleaning up old files¶

Suggested by the developer on 07/12/2020. Use this as a guide.

rm admin*.rec
rm crash*.log
rm domain_usage_201*.rec
rm expire_12*.log 
rm moved*.log
rm -r rec1*
rm resync.ini*
rm users_201*.rec
rm webnews*

Manually adding certificates¶

Each domain gets a subdirectory under /usr/local/surgemail/ssl.

sudo mkdir /usr/local/surgemail/ssl/mailw.com

Copy certs to /usr/local/surgemail/ssl/DOMAIN.NAME/surge_cert.pem and surge_priv.pem

tellmail ssl_update

ssl_alias "imap.mailw.com"
ssl_alias "smtp.mailw.com" 

Settings Log¶