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How big is your iRedMail mail server?
raindog308
Administrator, Veteran
in General
Thinking of putting up my own iRedMail server, now that Uncle Google is not playing nice with adding domains. And also because, well, I have to do something with all these LEBs.
How big is your iRedMail server? I realize it depends on how much mail/how many users so maybe share that info, too.
I was hoping to use a 128MB or 256MB OvZ. This would be for one user (me) with a few domains.
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256MB with some swap would be the absolute minimum if you don't want to seriously strip things down.
I would recommend 512MB+
iRedMail is fairly resource intensive, because of the whole Apache + MySQL setup.
Your best bet would be to go with a manual setup and skip that. Seriously, you won't need a web interface to create accounts since you won't be adding them constantly.
I wouldn't run it on anything less than 512 MB RAM. It will eat all of that on default settings. You really need at least 768 or 1024 MB to be comfortable, unless you start tweaking the settings and disabling some of the packages.
Also +1 for 512MB+. The amount of tweaking you'll have to do at 128-256mb i'm pretty sure you'll save more time setting it up manually.
Thanks for the advice. The site says 1GB minimum so it sounds like maybe that's the hassle-free way to go.
Try https://mailinabox.email/ instead. It does not use MySQL and replaces Apache with nginx (for webmail).
Thanks - that looks cool - I'll try it.
Reading a bit you could setup fairly easily postfix + dovecot (for example) + squirrelmain + nginx and that wouldn't use much ressources. 256MB would be enough imo...
mailinabox sounds nice though
Yeah it can all be done lean and mean, but frankly I'm being lazy. I find mail a headache to administer, mainly because the technologies involved are designed to handle complex setups and I typically just want to send and receive mail pretty simply.
I mean, seriously, sendmail is so complicated you need to learn a macro language to administer the damn thing...
Even the simplicity of OpenSMTPD bores me to tears :-)