Lesson 14 – How to install hMailServer

hMailServer – email server a la Exchange

Running your own email server (or more correctly, an smtp server) lets you do lots of things – specifically, to allow people to send you email to an email address at your new domain – ie bradzo [at] diyws.ath.cx

Right – so lets get to it.

Download the latest version of hMailServer fromhttp://www.hmailserver.com/?page=download

Choose the hMailServer 5.2 – Build 356 release, because that’s what I’m using for this lesson. :)

Run the setup.

Click the “Next” button at the Welcome message.

Click the “I accept the agreement” radio button.

Click the “Next” button.

Accept or change the “Select destination location” screen.

Click the “Next” button.

Select “Full installation” from the drop down list.

Click the “Next” button.

Select the “Use external database engine (MSSQL, MySQL or PostgreSQL)” radio button.

Click the “Next” button.

At the “Select Start Menu Folder” screen, just….

Click the “Next” button.

At the “Ready to Install” screen, just…

Click the “Install” button.

Wait for it to do all its stuff.

At the hMailServer Database Setup window, switch to where you installed XAMPP and find the libmysql.dll file, which should be in xamppmysqlbin – copy it from there (right click, select copy) and then paste it into the hMailServer Bin folder (c:program fileshmailserverbin)

Switch back to the hMailServer Database Setup screen, and select the “Create a new hMailServer database” option (radio button)

Click the “Next” button.

Click the “MySQL” radio button.

Click the “Next” button.

In the “Database server address” textbox, type in “localhost”

Leave the Port at 3306

In the “Database name” textbox, type “hMailServer”

In the “Use server authentication – Username” textbox, enter your desired username – remember this because we’ll need it in the next screens….

In the “Use server authentication – Password” textbox, enter your desired password – remember this because we’ll need it in the next screens….

Click the “Next” button.

The wizard now has enough information to proceed.

Now, here is the most important thing: browse to your XAMPP phpMyAdmin screen (http://localhost/phpmyadmin)

Click the Privileges tab at the top of the screen.

Scroll down a bit and click the “Add a new User” link.

At the Username field, type in “hmailserver”

At the Host field, select the “Local” option (selects localhost)

At the Password field, enter your desired password.

At the Re-type field, enter your desired password again.

At the Global Privileges frame, click the “Check All” option. (All the checkboxes should now be ticked)

Scroll down a bit further and click the “Go” button.

You’ve now created a new user with all the correct rights to create a database and do all the stuff that you need to get hMailServer running.

Ok – switch back to the “hMailServer Database Setup – Step 4 of 7? screen.

Click the “Next” button.

Select “mysql (mysql)” from the drop down list.

Click the “Next” button.

At the “hMailServer Database Setup – Step 6 of 7″ screen, click the “Next” button.

Wait till the database has been created, then click the “Close” button.

Now, hMailServer asks you for another password to administer your new mail server. Enter your password, and enter it again.

Click the “Next” button.

You’re now good to go – ensure the “Run hMailServer Administrator” option is checked, and click the “Finish” button.

At the next screen, click the “Connect” button.

Enter your password and click Ok.

Hooray – you’ve now:

Installed hMailServer.

Created a user.

Created the database.

Setup a password for the Admin tool.

Well done and congratulations! You’ve now installed hMailServer, an smtp server. (smtp = simple mail transport protocol)

Next, we see how to set up our mailboxes and all that other really groovy stuff.

Tell us about your experience with hMailServer, the smtp server for Windows, in the comments below.


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  2. Hi again just tested it
    it does work but you will have to get your ip removed from spamhaus policy blocklist in order to send mail to some email addresses (like yahoo). It has nothing to do with spam coming from your pc – unless your in the sbs (spam block list) or xbs (eploit black list).Apparently ip addresses dished out to home customers are automatically in the pbs. they say that they will check if the ip is a mail server or not , so i have yet to see if my ip will remain off the list

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    • Hey Matt

      Cool – I can see that you’re on a dynamic IP setup as well? Last time it was 83.xxx.xxx.xxx, now its 77.xxx.xxx.xxx?
      Excellent – that just goes to show people, that you absolutely can host your own website – even on a dynamic connection!
      Well done Matt.

      Ok – that is very interesting that IP addresses dished out to home customers are automatically sent to the pbs.
      I will check this further – I have setup accounts on hMailServer to send via my standard ISP account – headers etc are sent fine, and the recipient sees the mail coming from the ISP, not me.

      Thanks again Matt – you’re a legend!

      Cheers
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      Thanks for visiting.
      A question I’ve not had before – ok – start here:
      Check out your hosts file – I prefer to have names that map to an IP address (this makes it so easy later on when Apache etc are configured to use domain names, especially with regard to virtual hosts – but that’s for another lesson!)
      So, identify which PC is running your webserver, and then add its ip address (assuming its 192.168.1.10) in the hosts file (which should be at /windows/system/drivers/etc/hosts) like this:

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    • Hi Creig

      There’s a thread over at hMailServer forums that may help:

      http://www.hmailserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20071

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      Let us know!

      Cheers
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    • Hi Creig

      Its been a long time since I installed hMailServer (and I don’t use Windows anymore), but I think that you’d be ok with selecting the (mysql2) option – its obviously added another “instance” – oops – just looked at your most recent comment. I’m glad it worked!

      I’ll go review the instructions for the Windows install of hMailServer.

      Thanks for being a regular visitor – I appreciate it.

      Cheers
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