About the Email role

The Email role provides the following services:

• POP/IMAP (dovecot)
• SMTP (postfix)
• Spam filtering (rspamd)

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The Email role is only required if you intend to provide email services (mailboxes and forwarders) to customers. The Enhance control panel does not depend on this role and functions without it.

Installing the Email role will allow you to create hosting packages with email addresses and forwarder-only accounts. The customer can send messages through SMTP and receive with POP/IMAP. The username is always their email address.

If a website is mapped to an email role (see 'server placement'), that website will be able to send messages using the sendmail binary or PHP mail(). A drop-in sendmail replacement is added to the PHP container which sends through the website's SMTP using a hidden mailbox.