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kicou

I managed to fetch certs with opnsense acme-plugin. Already tested, works fine. I also managed to automate the deploy of the cert to mailcow. In the mailcow-docs is said:
"How to use your own certificate¶

Make sure you disable mailcows internal LE client (see above).

To use your own certificates, just save the combined certificate (containing the certificate and intermediate CA/CA if any) to data/assets/ssl/cert.pem and the corresponding key to data/assets/ssl/key.pem"

The copy of the certs from the opnsense is in:

/opt/mailcow-dockerized/data/assets/ssl/FQHN/

  • ca.pem
  • cert.pem
  • fullchain.pem
  • key.pem

Will that work?

    It won’t. No problem to write a cron job.

    Some other questions are popping up:

    In the doc I read: "Die mailcow Daten (wie bspw. E-Mails, Userdaten etc.) werden in Docker-Volumes aufbewahrt - geben Sie gut auf diese Volumes acht:

    clamd-db-vol-1
crypt-vol-1
mysql-socket-vol-1
mysql-vol-1
postfix-vol-1
redis-vol-1
rspamd-vol-1
sogo-userdata-backup-vol-1
sogo-web-vol-1
solr-vol-1
vmail-index-vol-1
vmail-vol-1

    "
    O.k. Got it. Are those volumes covered within the backup-script?

    While I’m migrating from another email-server, is it possible to upload bulk white/black lists?

    10 months later

    Friends, I have to ask you for help. mailcow is behind nginx proxy manager on 192.168.12.15, mailcow address is 192.168.12.41. It runs on mail.example.com the interface works, but when you start docker compose upd, an error pops up: Your hands are already dropping

    [unknown] Any help is greatly appreciated

    4 months later

    kicou

    Hi
    Really its not needed to prepare Proxmox host form MailCow LXC?

        • lipunis

            Moolevel 2
          • Post #26
          • Edited

          I struggled for a long time, but eventually, I succeeded. It’s probably because I lacked knowledge. In the end, everything has been working fine for six months, thanks to the guys, everything is okay.

          I used LXC+Docker

          I used LXC+Docker

            lipunis

            So without any changes in Proxmox Host ?
            im trying to avoid modify Proxmox host

              • lipunis

                  Moolevel 2
                • Post #28
                • Edited

                Sorry. I didnt feedback.In my case, it’s a corrupted container. There is a link in our community

                The Topikstarter has described everything well. I can hardly help you anymore. This is the only disadvantage of linux, that when you set everything up, it just works)

                The Topikstarter has described everything well. I can hardly help you anymore. This is the only disadvantage of linux, that when you set everything up, it just works)

                If I remember correctly, there were nuances of docker with IPtables.

                The Topikstarter has described everything well. I can hardly help you anymore. This is the only disadvantage of linux, that when you set everything up, it just works)

                If I remember correctly, there were nuances of docker with IPtables.

                The Topikstarter has described everything well. I can hardly help you anymore. This is the only disadvantage of linux, that when you set everything up, it just works)

                If I remember correctly, there were nuances of docker with IPtables.

                The Topikstarter has described everything well. I can hardly help you anymore. This is the only disadvantage of linux, that when you set everything up, it just works)

                If I remember correctly, there were nuances of docker with IPtables.

                • esackbauer

                  • Community Hero
                  Moolevel 347
                • Post #29

                KrisFromFuture Is Proxmox VM with Debian 12 (not LXC) option ok ?

                I would recommend that. Use a Debian 12 VM with Docker installed as per mailcow documentation.

                  • Kkicou

                      Moolevel 6
                    • Post #30

                    Hi all,

                    Just to be clear, LXC is not supported but works until now very well, since years !
                    Not use it for professional usage for sure, but for my personal use, 10 mailbox on a little memory server,
                    LXC works with what at say earlier.

                    But for sure, if you have a issue, you will not have any support from the mailcow staff.
                    If you can have a full KVM, is the preferred installation !

                      4 days later

                      • Dvalin21

                          Moolevel 6
                        • Post #31

                        kicou Can you please share your process to get it up and running? Thanks.

                          • Kkicou

                              Moolevel 6
                            • Post #32

                            Yes sure.

                            Follow the initial HOWTO without the step 1 “Prepare your proxmox hypervisor”.

                            It works like a charmn, without any preparation on the new Proxmox (Overlay and Naufs).

                            Lest Test from scratch on version 8.0.3 of Proxmox for me.

                            BR

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