Installation

Prerequisites

Have 2 machines installed and up to date in a supported OS:

• main machine that will receive BlueMind
• secondary machine which will be used as a server to store user data

Procedure

Preparing the storage server

On the secondary server, intended to receive the data :

1. drop the subscription in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bm.list

2. install the package bm-mailbox-role :

   aptitude install bm-mailbox-role

   The following message may appear depending on the packages already installed or not on your system:

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   root@shard:~# aptitude install bm-mailbox-role
   The following NEW packages will be installed: 
     bm-conf{a} bm-cyrus{a} bm-cyrus-imapd{a} bm-jdk{a} bm-lmtpd{a} bm-mailbox-role bm-maintenance-snzip{a} bm-maintenance-tools{a} bm-milter{a} bm-node{a} bm-pimp{a} bm-postfix{ab} 
     bm-postgresql{a} bm-tika{a} bm-ysnp{a} db-util{a} db5.3-util{a} emacs25-bin-common{a} emacs25-common{a} emacs25-el{a} emacs25-nox{a} emacsen-common{a} iftop{a} keyutils{a} 
     libasound2{a} libasound2-data{a} libgnutls-openssl27{a} libgpgme11{a} libjansson4{a} liblockfile-bin{a} liblockfile1{a} libnfsidmap2{a} libpq5{a} libsensors4{a} libtirpc1{a} 
     libtokyocabinet9{a} libxi6{a} libxrender1{a} libxtst6{a} mutt{a} nfs-common{a} pgdg-keyring{a} postfix{ab} postgresql-9.6{a} postgresql-client-9.6{a} postgresql-client-common{a} 
     postgresql-common{a} postgresql-contrib-9.6{a} rpcbind{a} sasl2-bin{a} ssl-cert{a} ssmtp{ab} sysstat{a} x11-common{a} 
   0 packages upgraded, 54 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
   Need to get 356 MB of archives. After unpacking 706 MB will be used.
   The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    ssmtp : Est en conflit avec: mail-transport-agent which is a virtual package, provided by:
                                 - postfix (3.3.0-1ubuntu0.2), but 3.3.0-1ubuntu0.2 is to be installed
                                 - exim4-daemon-light (4.90.1-1ubuntu1.1), but it is not going to be installed
                                 - exim4-daemon-heavy (4.90.1-1ubuntu1.1), but it is not going to be installed
                                 - ssmtp (2.64-8ubuntu2), but 2.64-8ubuntu2 is to be installed
                                 - sendmail-bin (8.15.2-10), but it is not going to be installed
                                 - qmail-run (2.0.2+nmu1), but it is not going to be installed
                                 - opensmtpd (6.0.3p1-1build1), but it is not going to be installed
                                 - nullmailer (1:2.1-5), but it is not going to be installed
                                 - msmtp-mta (1.6.6-1), but it is not going to be installed
                                 - masqmail (0.3.4-1build1), but it is not going to be installed
                                 - lsb-invalid-mta (9.20170808ubuntu1), but it is not going to be installed
                                 - esmtp-run (1.2-15), but it is not going to be installed
                                 - dma (0.11-1build1), but it is not going to be installed
                                 - courier-mta (0.78.0-2ubuntu2), but it is not going to be installed
                                 - citadel-server (917-2), but it is not going to be installed
                                 - postfix (3.3.0-1), but 3.3.0-1ubuntu0.2 is to be installed
                                 - exim4-daemon-light (4.90.1-1ubuntu1), but it is not going to be installed
                                 - exim4-daemon-heavy (4.90.1-1ubuntu1), but it is not going to be installed
   
    postfix : Est en conflit avec: mail-transport-agent which is a virtual package, provided by:
                                   - postfix (3.3.0-1ubuntu0.2), but 3.3.0-1ubuntu0.2 is to be installed
                                   - exim4-daemon-light (4.90.1-1ubuntu1.1), but it is not going to be installed
                                   - exim4-daemon-heavy (4.90.1-1ubuntu1.1), but it is not going to be installed
                                   - ssmtp (2.64-8ubuntu2), but 2.64-8ubuntu2 is to be installed
                                   - sendmail-bin (8.15.2-10), but it is not going to be installed
                                   - qmail-run (2.0.2+nmu1), but it is not going to be installed
                                   - opensmtpd (6.0.3p1-1build1), but it is not going to be installed
                                   - nullmailer (1:2.1-5), but it is not going to be installed
                                   - msmtp-mta (1.6.6-1), but it is not going to be installed
                                   - masqmail (0.3.4-1build1), but it is not going to be installed
                                   - lsb-invalid-mta (9.20170808ubuntu1), but it is not going to be installed
                                   - esmtp-run (1.2-15), but it is not going to be installed
                                   - dma (0.11-1build1), but it is not going to be installed
                                   - courier-mta (0.78.0-2ubuntu2), but it is not going to be installed
                                   - citadel-server (917-2), but it is not going to be installed
                                   - postfix (3.3.0-1), but 3.3.0-1ubuntu0.2 is to be installed
                                   - exim4-daemon-light (4.90.1-1ubuntu1), but it is not going to be installed
                                   - exim4-daemon-heavy (4.90.1-1ubuntu1), but it is not going to be installed
   
    bm-postfix : Est en conflit avec: ssmtp but 2.64-8ubuntu2 is to be installed
   The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
   
        Keep the following packages at their current version:
   1)     ssmtp [Not Installed]                              
   
   
   
   Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] Y

   Type "Y" then <Enter> to accept the solution of keeping ssmtp uninstalled so that Postfix can be installed which BlueMind needs

Installation and configuration of BlueMind

On the main server:

1. install BlueMind
2. During the Setup Wizard, at the domain configuration stage, check the "Data Server" box and enter the IP of the storage server:
   
3. Continue with the installation
4. Log in to BlueMind as superadministrator admin0

5. Go to System Management > Application Servers: the secondary server should appear and have the tags mail/imap and bm/pgsql-data :
   

   At this stage, the name of the server is a generated name, you can modify it simply in its management form, accessible by clicking on the corresponding line:

   

   In the server management form, in the Roles tab, the "User data" role is checked.

6. Go to System Management > Manage Domains > select the domain > Mail tab: the server is selected as Mailbox storage server:
   

The server is ready to receive data.