By ndkratos
I’ve tried every documentation on installing everything from Postfix/Dovecot/iRedmail etc… So far the only thing I’ve got to work is Postfix, which is sad.
I’m running Ubuntu 12.04 with nginx/PHP for my website. I want to use nginx for the mail server as well. Can anyone please tell me how to get Postfix/Dovecot to play nice with Nginx?
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You can install either iRedMail or Postfix/Dovecot manually. Doing both will most likely break your setup. <br> <br>You can install iRedMail, configure Apache to listen on port 8080, and configure nginx to reverse proxy to apache like another user did: <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/nginx-reverse-proxy-with-iredmail-apache2”>https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/nginx-reverse-proxy-with-iredmail-apache2</a>. <br> <br>Make sure you uninstall (with the --purge argument, e.g. <code>sudo apt-get remove postfix --purge</code>) all mail related packages such as postfix and dovecot so that existing configs do not conflict with iRedMail. <br> <br>Good luck!
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