How to set up a mail scenario

Goals

In order to set up a mail server in eBox you may want to achieve these goals:

1. Be able to send/receive messages
2. Be able to retrieve messages

Send/receive messages SMTP

In order to be able to send/receive mails from eBox you must follow these steps:

1. Enable Network, users and groups and mail modules in Module status section.
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2. Create a user, called for instance foo via Users -> Add user
3. Create a virtual domain named domain.com through Mail -> Virtual domains
4. Edit user foo to create a mail account called foo@domain.com. To do so, go to Edit user -> Select foo user -> Create mail account
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5. Save changes

Now you may send mails from eBox host.

There are several options up there to configure from Mail->General->Settings as well as TLS support with/without authentication.

Retrieve message using POP3/IMAP

To retrieve messages from eBox mail server to your local mail local program. You may enable POP3/IMAP support by following steps:

1. Enable POP3 to allow POP3 clients to connect this mail server. Go to Mail -> General to do so
2. Save changes