How to Install Excision Mail on Windows 10

Excision Mail is a mail server application that is available on GitHub. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps required to install Excision Mail on Windows 10.

Prerequisites

Before starting the installation process, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:

  • A Windows operating system, preferably Windows 10
  • XAMPP or any other web server software installed on your system
  • Git installed on your system

Step 1: Download Excision Mail

The first step is to download Excision Mail from GitHub. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Open a web browser and go to https://github.com/Excision-Mail/Excision-Mail.
  2. Click on the "Clone or Download" button and then click on "Download ZIP" to download the ZIP file of Excision Mail.

Step 2: Extract the ZIP file

Once the ZIP file has been downloaded, extract its contents to a folder of your choice.

Step 3: Move files to the web server directory

Now, move the extracted files to the web server directory. In this tutorial, we will assume that you are using XAMPP, so the directory will be "C:\xampp\htdocs". Move the contents of the extracted folder to the "htdocs" folder.

Step 4: Start the web server and database server

Before you can start using Excision Mail, you need to start the web server and database server. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Open XAMPP Control Panel
  2. Start Apache and MySQL services by clicking on the "Start" button.

Step 5: Create a new database

Next, you need to create a new database for Excision Mail. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Open a web browser and go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/
  2. Click on the "New" button to create a new database.
  3. Name the database "excision_mail".

Step 6: Import the database

After creating the database, you need to import the database schema. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Open a web browser and go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/
  2. Select the "excision_mail" database from the left-hand menu.
  3. Click on the "Import" tab.
  4. Click on the "Choose File" button and select the "excision_mail.sql" file from the folder where you extracted Excision Mail.
  5. Click on the "Go" button to import the schema.

Step 7: Configure Excision Mail

Now that the web server, database server, and database schema are all set up, you need to configure Excision Mail. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Open a web browser and go to http://localhost/
  2. Click on the "Home" link in the top right corner.
  3. Click on the "Settings" link in the left-hand menu.
  4. Enter the required details for your mail server, such as your domain name and administrator email address.
  5. Once you have configured the settings, click on the "Save Configuration" button.

Step 8: Login

You can now log in to Excision Mail by going to http://localhost/ and clicking on the "Login" link in the top right corner. Use the default login details username and password as "admin" to login.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Excision Mail on your Windows 10 system.