telxey / mailcow-on-aarch64-arm64

A guide on how to install and run Mailcow on an aarch64/arm64 server.

Installing Mailcow on aarch64/arm64

These instructions will guide you through the process of installing Mailcow on your aarch64/arm64 system.

Installation Steps

Most parts of the guide are from mailcow itself. You can have a look at them here

Install docker

curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | CHANNEL=stable sh
# After the installation process is finished, you may need to enable the service and make sure it is started (e.g. CentOS 7)
systemctl enable --now docker

On Debian/Ubuntu systems:

apt update
apt install docker-compose-plugin git

On Centos 7 systems:

yum update
yum install docker-compose-plugin git

Install mailcow

su
umask
#$ 0022 # <- Verify it is 0022
cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized
cd mailcow-dockerized

Initialize mailcow

./generate_config.sh
# Generate a configuration file. Use a FQDN (host.domain.tld) as hostname when asked.

aarch64/arm64 changes

# Most docker containers are replaced with the images from ghcr.io/maxtroughear
rm docker-compose.yml
curl -o docker-compose.yml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DedBash/Mailcow-on-aarch64-arm64/main/docker-compose.yml
# if you use the backup system from mailcow:
rm helper-scripts/backup_and_restore.sh
curl -o helper-scripts/backup_and_restore.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DedBash/Mailcow-on-aarch64-arm64/main/backup_and_restore.sh
chmod +x helper-scripts/backup_and_restore.sh

Start mailcow

docker compose pull
docker compose up -d

Tested on

Hetzner´s CAX11 cloud server

Credits

maxtroughear created the Docker containers