docs/Servers/Email/Mailcow.md

Purpose

The purpose of this document is to illustrate how to deploy Mailcow in a dockerized format.

!!! note "Assumptions" It is assumed that you are deploying Mailcow into an existing Ubuntu Server environment. If you are using a different operating system, refer to the official documentation.

Setting Up Docker

Go ahead and set up docker and docker-compose with the following commands:

sudo su # (1)
curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | CHANNEL=stable sh # (2)
apt install docker-compose-plugin # (2)
systemctl enable --now docker # (3)

1. Make yourself root.
2. Install Docker and Docker-Compose
3. Make docker run automatically when the server is booted.