Perusahaan di tempat aku menjadi konsultan Linux Engineer di India (IKON Ltd) baru saja membeli software Mail Server dengan produk Windows dan Linux. Software ini adalah Merak Mailserver yang sangat tangguh dan oke punya. Untuk Merak Mailserver versi Windows diinstall oleh staff nya di India. Sementara untuk yang Merak Mailserver versi Linux diserahkan ke saya untuk menginstall di salah satu servernya di Data Centre Calpop. Proses installnya dengan remote dari Jakarta. Server untuk Merak ini merupakan server ke 11 yang aku pegang sebagai Linux konsultannya. Merak mailserver yang dibeli merupakan IceWarp Professional Suite dengan komponen didalamnya Mailserver, WebMail, Anti-Spam Module, Anti-Virus Module, Web Server Module, Migration Tool. Ini software sudah mahal memang canggih dibanding software-software gratisan lainnya dengan Linux Based. Merak tidak hanya software untuk email system tetapi juga untuk business communications platform.

Berikut proses instalasi dan konfigurasi Merak Mailserver versi Linux :

Sistem operasi menggunakan Linux CentOS 5.2 :

[root@mail gtoms]# tar zxvf merak-9.3.2_RHEL5.2.tar.gz
[root@mail gtoms]# cd merak-9.3.2_RHEL5.2
[root@mail merak-9.3.2_RHEL5.2]# ls
INSTALL install.sh LICENSE Makefile Makefile.README merak-image-9.3.2_RHEL5.2.tar
[root@mail merak-9.3.2_RHEL5.2]#

Saya edit dahulu file install.sh untuk menyesuaikan path : /sbin/service dan /sbin/chkconfig

Kemudian memulai instalasi :

[root@mail merak-9.3.2_RHEL5.2]# ./install.sh
—- EULA —-

Software Licence Agreement for IceWarp Merak Mail Server

EULA

Note: This is a legal agreement between You (our Customer) and us, Icewarp Ltd.
(Icewarp), which governs your use of the IceWarp Merak Mail Server or any of its
components selected by you on the Component License Sheet. By using
IceWarp Merak Mail Server, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions
of this Software Licence Agreement. You are not allowed to use
IceWarp Merak Mail Server without agreeing to the terms and conditions hereof.

This Software Licence Agreement is for the full version of IceWarp Merak Mail Server and
provides you also a right to access without additional payment all released
updates/upgrades of the IceWarp Merak Mail Server for a period of one year. You can
prolong this period for additional year(s) against payment of annual maintenance fee.
Icewarp reserves the right to license, on the basis of a modified or entirely new licence
agreements, any future or other versions of IceWarp Merak Mail Server.

Copyright (c) Icewarp Ltd., 2000-2008
All rights reserved.

You may use this product only under a single operating system. For the avoidance
of doubt, you need a separate EULA per each and every operating system of each
and every CPU on which the IceWarp Merak Mail Server is installed.

You acquire no right to distribute the IceWarp Merak Mail Server and no right to copy the
product and/or any associated product documentation unless agreed with Icewarp Ltd.
in writing.

You agree not to decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the IceWarp Merak Mail Server.

You acknowledge that you obtain no ownership rights to the IceWarp Merak Mail Server under
the terms of this Software License Agreement. All rights in the product including
but not limited to trade secrets, trademarks, service marks, patents and copyrights
are, shall be and will remain the property of Icewarp Limited or any third party
contributor from whom Icewarp has licensed software or technology.

You may not remove any proprietary notices, labels, trademarks on the Merak Mail
Server product or documentation.

Upon installation, the program will send an informative email to our server.
The information contained in this email is strictly confidential and is used for no
other purpose than to aggregate installation statistics.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS
AND CONTRIBUTORS”AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. TO THE MAXIMUM
EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW SHALL THE
COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS NOT BE LIABLE
FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY,
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR
BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON
ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE
OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGE. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE TOTAL
LIABILITY OF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS
EXCEED THE PRICE YOU PAID FOR THE PRODUCT LICENSED
HEREUNDER.

Sign-up procedure:

If you agree with the provisions of this Software License Agreement, please tick the
“I agree with the license agreement” chekbox below. If you do not agree with the
provisions of this Software License Agreement, please exit the system by clicking
“Cancel”.

—- EVALUATION —-

Software Licence Agreement for the Evaluation Version of IceWarp Merak Mail Server

For Evaluation and Testing Purposes Only

Note: This is a legal agreement between You (our Customer) and us, Icewarp Ltd.
(Icewarp), which governs your use of the Testing Version of IceWarp Merak Mail Server or
any of its components selected by you on the Component License Sheet. By using
IceWarp Merak Mail Server, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this
Software Licence Agreement. You are not allowed to use IceWarp Merak Mail Server
without agreeing to the terms and conditions hereof.

This Software Licence Agreement is for the Testing Version of IceWarp Merak Mail Server
and provides limited rights for testing purposes only. Icewarp reserves the right to
license, on the basis of a modified or entirely new licence agreements, any future
or other versions of IceWarp Merak Mail Server.

Copyright (c) Icewarp Ltd., 2000-2008
All rights reserved.

You may use this product for evaluation and testing purposes only under a single
operating system for a period of 60 days.

You acquire no right to distribute the IceWarp Merak Mail Server and no right to copy the
product and/or any associated product documentation unless agreed with Icewarp Ltd.
in writing.

You agree not to decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the IceWarp Merak Mail Server.

You acknowledge that you obtain no ownership rights to the IceWarp Merak Mail Server
under the terms of this Software License Agreement. All rights in the product
including but not limited to trade secrets, trademarks, service marks, patents
and copyrights are, shall be and will remain the property of Icewarp Limited
or any third party contributor from whom Icewarp has licensed software or technology.

You may not remove any proprietary notices, labels, trademarks on the
IceWarp Merak Mail Server product or documentation.

Upon installation, the program will send an informative email to our server.
The information contained in this email is strictly confidential and is used for
no other purpose than to aggregate installation statistics.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS
AND CONTRIBUTORS”AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. TO THE MAXIMUM
EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW SHALL THE
COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS NOT BE LIABLE
FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY,
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR
BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON
ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE
OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Sign-up procedure:

If you agree with the provisions of this Software License Agreement, please tick the
“I agree with the license agreement” chekbox below. If you do not agree with the
provisions of this Software License Agreement, please exit the system by clicking
“Cancel”.

** You must accept this license agreement if you want to continue.
** Press ENTER to accept license or CTRL+C to quit

** Installation/Upgrade mode entered
**
** Installation prefix [/opt/merak]:
** Performing upgrade
**
** Please check entered informations before continuing:
**
** Installation prefix: /opt/merak (upgrading)
** Services will run as user: root
** Services will run as group: root
**
** Press ENTER to continue, CTRL+C to quit

** Extracting distribution
** Please wait…
** Changing permissions
**
** Upgrading configuration files:
** /opt/merak/config/webserver.dat
**
** Press ENTER to continue, CTRL+C to quit

** Checking if Merak Mail Server is added as system service …
** Note: Merak Mail Server system service can be reinstalled
** by removing already installed service.
**
** Merak Mail Server is already added as system service.
** Delete service? [Y/n]: y
** Removing Merak Mail Server system service.
** Do you want to add Merak Mail Server as a system service? [Y/n]: y
** Adding Merak Mail Server as system service
** Do you want Merak Mail Server to start automatically on reboot? [Y/n]: y
** Making service as autostart
**
** It is possible now to upgrade data to the current version.
** To do this, all services have to be started.
** Note: You can run upgrade process later by command
** in /opt/merak: ./tool upgrade _old_version_
**
** Start services and perform the data upgrade now? [Y/n]: y
** Starting Merak service
** Data upgrade completed successfully
**
** IceWarp Merak Mail Server was successfully installed or upgraded.
**
** Installer log is available in /root/merak-install.log
** Installer error log is available in /root/merak-install-error.log

[root@mail merak-9.3.2_RHEL5.2]# cd /opt/merak

[root@mail merak]# ls
api cal config doc html lib merakd modules pop3 scripts smtp status tool.sh webmail wizard.sh
avast calendar control examples im logs merakd.sh php README.txt sendmail spam tool var wine

[root@mail merak]# ./wizard.sh
**
** Merak Mail Server
** (c) 1999-2008 IceWarp Ltd.
**
** Wizard configuration assistant
**
** Logging is enabled to the following file for future reference:
** Commands: /opt/merak/logs/wizard/merak-wizard-cmd.log
**
** Press [ENTER] to continue, CTRL-C to quit.

[root@mail merak]# netstat -nltup
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:32000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15046/control
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:993 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15100/pop3
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:32001 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15046/control
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:995 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15100/pop3
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5222 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15073/im
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5223 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15073/im
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2109/mysqld
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5229 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15060/cal
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:366 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15115/smtp
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:110 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15100/pop3
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15100/pop3
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:465 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15115/smtp
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5269 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15073/im
tcp 0 0 216.240.142.yyy:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1898/named
tcp 0 0 216.240.142.yyw:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1898/named
tcp 0 0 216.240.142.yyf:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1898/named
tcp 0 0 216.240.142.yyh:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1898/named
tcp 0 0 216.240.142.yyj:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1898/named
tcp 0 0 216.240.142.yyl:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1898/named
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1898/named
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8088 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15212/ctasd.bin
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15115/smtp
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:953 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1898/named
tcp 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN 1996/sshd
tcp 0 0 ::1:953 :::* LISTEN 1898/named
udp 0 0 216.240.142.yyy:53 0.0.0.0:* 1898/named
udp 0 0 216.240.142.yyw:53 0.0.0.0:* 1898/named
udp 0 0 216.240.142.yyf:53 0.0.0.0:* 1898/named
udp 0 0 216.240.142.yyh:53 0.0.0.0:* 1898/named
udp 0 0 216.240.142.yyj:53 0.0.0.0:* 1898/named
udp 0 0 216.240.142.yyl:53 0.0.0.0:* 1898/named
udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* 1898/named
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:41331 0.0.0.0:* 1898/named
udp 0 0 216.240.142.yyy:123 0.0.0.0:* 2014/ntpd
udp 0 0 216.240.142.yyw:123 0.0.0.0:* 2014/ntpd
udp 0 0 216.240.142.yyf:123 0.0.0.0:* 2014/ntpd
udp 0 0 216.240.142.yyh:123 0.0.0.0:* 2014/ntpd
udp 0 0 216.240.142.yyj:123 0.0.0.0:* 2014/ntpd
udp 0 0 216.240.142.yyl:123 0.0.0.0:* 2014/ntpd
udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:123 0.0.0.0:* 2014/ntpd
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:123 0.0.0.0:* 2014/ntpd
udp 0 0 :::46260 :::* 1898/named
udp 0 0 ::1:123 :::* 2014/ntpd
udp 0 0 :::123 :::* 2014/ntpd
[root@mail merak]#

[root@mail merak]# /sbin/service merak restart
Stopping Merak services: [ OK ]
Stopping Merak daemon: [ OK ]
Starting Merak: [ OK ]
[root@mail merak]#

Testing dengan telnet :
220 mail.qotexxx.info ESMTP IceWarp 9.3.2 RHEL5.2; Tue, 30 Jan 2009 00:54:13 -0800
ehlo localhost
250-mail.qotexxx.info Hello localhost [202.51.xxx.xxx], pleased to meet you.
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-SIZE
250-EXPN
250-ETRN
250-ATRN
250-DSN
250-CHECKPOINT
250-8BITMIME
250-AUTH CRAM-MD5 PLAIN LOGIN DIGEST-MD5
250-STARTTLS
250 HELP
quit
221 2.0.0 mail.qotexxx.info closing connection

Untuk administrasi Merak Mailserver melalui website :
http://mail.qotexxx.info:32000/admin

Untuk administrasi melalui linuxnya :
Starting Merak server and/or services:
[linux]# ./merakd –start
Start merakd and automatically starts all services, except PHP, which
is started when first HTTP request arrives.
[linux]# ./merakd –start control|gw|im|pop3|smtp|all
Start selected service or all services. This command will not start merakd if it is not already running. If control
was started, it will start PHP on first HTTP request.
Stopping Merak server and/or services:
[linux]# ./merakd –stop
Stops all running services, stops merakd and also PHP. This is command for complete shutdown of Merak
server.
[linux]# ./merakd –stop control|gw|im|pop3|smtp|all
Stops selected service or all services. This command will cause to stop PHP together with control and will not
stop merakd.

Selesai. Ternyata semakin mahal softwarenya, semakin cepat pula instalasinya….

Contact me :
henry@gultom.or.id