Installing Maddy Mail Server on Windows 10

Maddy is an easy-to-use and extremely fast mail delivery agent (MDA) created for modern mail delivery agents. It supports several types of POP and IMAP clients, as well as SMTP, submission, and LMTP.

This tutorial will show you how to install Maddy Mail Server on Windows 10.

Prerequisites

Before you begin installing Maddy, you'll need to:

  • Have a Windows 10 machine that meets Maddy's system requirements.
  • Have a command-line interface (CLI) installed.
  • Have Git installed on your machine.

Step 1: Download Maddy from GitHub

The first step in installing Maddy Mail Server is to download the source code from GitHub.

  1. Open your command-line interface (CLI) and navigate to the directory where you want to download Maddy.
  2. Enter the following command to download the Maddy code from the official GitHub repository:
git clone https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy.git

Once the download is complete, enter the following command to change to the Maddy directory:

cd maddy

Step 2: Build Maddy

To build Maddy on Windows 10, you'll need to use the provided Visual Studio Solution file. Build configurations allow you to choose which components to include in Maddy's server binaries.

  1. Open the maddy.sln solution file in Visual Studio.
  2. You may be prompted to download any missing packages. If so, proceed with the download and installation.
  3. Select your build configuration to ensure that all necessary components are included.
  4. Build the solution by selecting Build Solution from the Build dropdown menu.
  5. After the build is complete, the Maddy binaries will be available in the bin/ directory of the Maddy source code.

Step 3: Configure Maddy

Now that Maddy is built, it's time to configure it to work with your mailboxes.

  1. Create a configuration file called maddy.conf in the Maddy directory.
  2. Use the example configuration file to build your own configuration file.

Step 4: Run Maddy

Now that your configuration file is set up, it's time to run Maddy.

  1. Open your command-line interface (CLI) and navigate to the Maddy directory.
  2. Enter the following command to start the Maddy server process:
./maddy -config maddy.conf

Once Maddy is up and running, you can use it as your mail server.

Congratulations! You've now installed Maddy Mail Server on Windows 10.