Mailinabox: How to uninstall mail in a box in Ubuntu

[rinodung]

Please tell me how to uninstall it from my Ubuntu VPS?

[dhpiggott]

There is no uninstaller, so I think you'll find it quicker and easier to reinstall Ubuntu than trying to manually revert each change made by Mail-in-a-Box.

[geneowak]

You can actually 'uninstall' it (remove would be a better word).

I happened to install it on a server that we were using already and it messed up some of the domains we had and so I had to get rid of it and install it on a new server. Reinstalling Ubuntu wasn't an option since the server already had many things. I did a little search and came across a way of removing it without refreshing the server.

Here are the steps that worked for me.

1. Delete the mailinabox directory.
2. Rename the /etc/nginx/conf.d/local.conf to /etc/nginx/conf.d/local.conf.old
3. Rename the /etc/nginx/conf.d/ssl.conf to/etc/nginx/conf.d/ssl.conf.old
4. Reload nginx systemctl reload nginx.

You can also rename the server by updating the /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname files

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