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This is really a follow up article to one I wrote earlier this year but is really applicable to any similar set-up, with some modifications. The only configuration similarity this requires is that mail for all users is stored on the filesystem in the same place, rather than to separate locations i.e. each user having ~/.Maildir.

EncFS

sudo apt-get install encfs

Once installed, you’ll need to make a directory for encrypted and decrypted mail to live.

sudo mkdir /var/mail/encrypted /var/mail/decrypted

You’ll need to set up permissions so your mail user can access the fuse device and the new directories.

For me, this user and group are called vmail but yours may be different.

sudo chgrp mail /var/mail/decrypted
sudo g+rw /var/mail/decrypted
sudo usermod -a -g fuse vmail
sudo chgrp fuse /dev/fuse
sudo chmod g+rw /dev/fuse

Next …

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This mail platform does use a fair amount of memory, the memory usage is ClamAV and Solr, the latter being used for IMAP SEARCH. I personally use 2 GB.

I’ll warn you all now, this is a long article.

SSL

sudo openssl genrsa -out /etc/ssl/private/mail.key 4096
sudo openssl req -new -key /etc/ssl/private/mail.key -out /tmp/mail.csr
sudo openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in /tmp/mail.csr -signkey /etc/ssl/private/mail.key -out /etc/ssl/certs/mail.crt

MySQL

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

You’ll be prompted several times for a password for MySQL during the installation, just come up with something nice and secure.

The first thing to set-up will be the MySQL database and schema.

mysql -u root -p

Next up, create the database.

CREATE DATABASE mailserver CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

And grant some privileges, you’ll need …