Post installation setup and testing

Source Installation Methods. Source Installation Prerequisites. Choosing an Installation Package. Extracting the Install Archive.

Creating an Option File. Initializing the Data Directory. Starting the Server for the First Time. Windows Postinstallation Procedures.

Windows Platform Restrictions. Postinstallation Setup and Testing. Changes in MySQL 8. For some MySQL installation methods, data directory initialization may be done for you automatically:. Installation using the native packaging system on many platforms, including Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Gentoo Linux, and others. For other platforms and installation types, you must initialize the data directory manually. These include installation from generic binary and source distributions on Unix and Unix-like system, and installation from a ZIP Archive package on Windows.

For instructions, see Section 9. Start the server and make sure that it can be accessed. Twitter Reddit Hacker News Facebook. Share link Tutorial share link. Sign Up. DigitalOcean home. Community Control Panel. Hacktoberfest Contribute to Open Source. Not using Ubuntu Choose a different version or distribution. Ubuntu A previous version of this tutorial was written by Justin Ellingwood Introduction Postfix is a popular open-source Mail Transfer Agent MTA that can be used to route and deliver email on a Linux system.

Prerequisites Setting up and maintaining your own mail server is complicated and time-consuming. This server should have a non-root user with sudo privileges and a firewall configured with UFW. You can follow our Ubuntu Be aware that if you plan on accessing mail from an external location, you will need to make sure you have an MX record pointing to your mail server as well.

To begin, update your local apt package cache: sudo apt update Then install the postfix package with the following command. For the purposes of this tutorial, use the following information to fill in your prompts: General type of mail configuration? System mail name : This is the base domain used to construct a valid email address when only the account portion of the address is given.

You will likely want to set the system mail name to example. Root and postmaster mail recipient : This is the Linux account that will be forwarded mail addressed to root and postmaster. Use your primary account for this. In this example case, sammy. Other destinations to accept mail for : This defines the mail destinations that this Postfix instance will accept. If you need to add any other domains that this server will be responsible for receiving, add those here.

Otherwise, the default will be sufficient. Force synchronous updates on mail queue? Local networks : This is a list of the networks for which your mail server is configured to relay messages.