Mail-in-a-Box (Ubuntu 16.04 aware)

This is a fork

For original sources, see Mail-in-a-Box!

Why is this fork special?

Using this fork, one may easily install mail-in-a-box on Ubuntu 16.04.05!

Features

• spreed in Nextcloud by default
  • private and secure voice & videoconference calls
• nextant in Nextcloud by default
  • fulltext search built on top of Apache Solr
  • you can search text within all of your JPGs, PNGs, PDFs, Office documents, etc. (it's using OCR)
• all services run in an systemd init system (much better UX)
• no php5 anywhere! - all running on php7, so there is no need to maintain two versions of php
• lesser hardware requirements (I run it on 512 MB RAM & 1 CPU without any hassle - from DigitalOcean )

Disadvantages

• lack of dovecot-lucene in Ubuntu 16.04 brought me to a decision to don't include fulltext search into the roundcube
  • but that seems not to be an issue because all modern email clients have this already installed

Quick Install

# Clone this fork
git clone https://github.com/stefanheijnen/mailinabox.git $HOME/mailinabox
cd $HOME/mailinabox

git checkout v0.29

# Run installation
setup/start.sh

How to switch to this fork

sudo service mailinabox stop
mv $HOME/mailinabox/ $HOME/mailinabox.old/

# Clone this fork
git clone https://github.com/stefanheijnen/mailinabox.git $HOME/mailinabox
cd $HOME/mailinabox

#note to self, don't forget tag!
git checkout v0.29a

# Run installation
setup/start.sh

Toubleshooting

In case of some trouble, please issue setup/start.sh command once again. If that doesn't help, you are welcome to file a new issue.