Setting up emails - Anyone kind enough to assist step by step?

June 3, 2014 1.3k views
tomweraksa
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tomweraksa
Hi there, I've recently moved from cpanel hosting to droplet sdd cloud hosting and I'm loving the concept. DigitalOcean made it very easy to install wordpress with a droplet, but now I need to email people. I need to know what to do in order to be able to create email addresses, log in to my email and email people - along with also being able to use my email address with outlook etc. Anyone? Happy to share my details with a trusted member to potentially do this with me or for me. Reading tutorials online helps but still very odd to me.
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castroc.diego June 3, 2014
Setup up your own email hosting is a very complicated process and not recommended unless you really know what you are doing, it requires a lot of maintenance.

I recommend you to sign up for either a google apps account or a service to deliver emails like mandrill or sendgrid. Then configure your postfix or the wordpress to use smtp, here is an example http://rtcamp.com/wordpress-nginx/tutorials/linux/ubuntu-postfix-gmail-smtp/
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winston June 3, 2014
I'm new to Digital Ocean and not familiar with the Wordpress droplet, but I've installed virtualmin on all my servers. It's a GUI for managing your server and virtual hosts (clients) that comes with a mostly automatic installation of common servers including mail server. You'll need to have some systems admin kung-fu for it be useful, but check it out, highly recommended: https://www.virtualmin.com.
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larry June 6, 2014
There are several "all-in-one" installers out there that will set up a mail server for you. My experience has been that they generally don't work right out of the box. My Virtualmin installation required a week of troubleshooting to get e-mail working properly, and I'm not exactly a newbie when it comes to *nix system administration.
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