Hi, mail server(squirrel/postfix) setup assistance.

[tjv001]

Hi
Can i pay somebody to install a mail server on my Ubuntu server? I think its called squirrel?! I basically want someone to remotely to set it up or provide reasonably simple stages to do it by myself. Ive tried postfix and its complex.
Thanks.
Tim.

[garye]

Tim, there are some easy to follow instructions here.... https://www.tecmint.com/setup-postfi...ubuntu-debian/

Gary

[tjv001]

Great many thanks! Unfortunately I get this error:


godzukee@ubuntu18:~$ sudo apt-get install apache2 php5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package php5 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

Tim.

[darkod]

Ubuntu 18.04 comes with PHP 7 instead of PHP 5. That is why package php5 is not found in the default repositories.

Also, as far as I know, Squirrel Mail is only a webmail client. That is an additional part on the mail server that allows webmail capabilities.

For a mail server to work you need at least two necessary components:
Mail Transport Agent (MTA): usually used is postfix
Mail Delivery Agent (MDA): usually used is dovecot

Installing Squirrel does not mean you can avoid installing Postfix.

[tjv001]

Thanks for the reply. I still cant install using php7.
Heres the details if you can help.
:
oot@ubuntu18:/home/godzukee# sudo apt-get install apache2 PHP7
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package PHP7
root@ubuntu18:/home/godzukee#


regards
Tim.

[howefield]

The package won't be named PHP7, that's why it's unable to locate it. Try simply php or php7

[tjv001]

Cool. Thanks. It worked ! But the package configuration gui doesn't appear automatically to continue with the installation.
Can you help with this?
Tim.

I get the following error:

sudo apt-get install dovecot-imapd dovecot- pop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package 'dovecot' is not installed, so not removed
E: Unable to locate package pop
root@ubuntu18:/home/godzukee# sudo apt-get install dovecot-imapd dovecot- pop3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package 'dovecot' is not installed, so not removed
E: Unable to locate package pop3

Any ideas?
Tim.

[SeijiSensei]

There's a space between "dovecot-" and "pop". The bash parser interprets those as separate arguments to apt.

[tjv001]

<Hi, thanks for the reply This is what i typed in:

sudo apt-get install dovecot-imapd dovecot - pop (and tried pop 3)

I get this error message:


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package dovecot is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'dovecot' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package pop

Is any one able to help with this?

Hope you can help.
Regards
Tim.

[SeijiSensei]

Again there appears to be a space in "dovecot- pop".