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nothing@nowhere - 2021-08-17

mailinabox Setup

In this tutorial we're going to cover how to setup mailinabox on an ubuntu 18.04 VPS:

yes i was lazy to add comments in this tutorial, it's very straightforward as you'll see:

Initial Setup

root@mail:~# curl -s https://mailinabox.email/setup.sh | sudo bash
	

Out of the box you will need to fix things on your mailbox, so let's do them one by one:

root@mail:~# vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
root@mail:~# cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep 'PasswordAuthentication'
PasswordAuthentication no
root@mail:~# systemctl restart sshd
root@mail:~# reboot now
	

Now that's done, most of the DNS related issues should be dealt with (give it a few hours once you made the modifications because DNS can be slow to update records) After a few hours we check again: