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Are there email servers aimed at Linux noobs?
by kowdermeister 10y ago
Are there email servers aimed at Linux noobs?
- oblio 10y agoNot really and the whole thing is a huge pain the ass if you want your emails to be received by Gmail/Yahoo/etc. recipients.
- arpa 10y agonot that big pain in the ass once you get DKIM, DMARC and SPF working...
- Jaruzel 10y agoYou can get round this by 'smarthosting' your outgoing mail. Typically this is your ISPs SMTP relay server. For example, I host my own Mail environment (MS Exchange, not that it's relevant) and all my outgoing mail is sent directly via SMTP to my ISPs smarthost. That smarthost then directs it where it needs to go based on the recipients domain. This way you are not sending mail directly from your 'untrusted' mail server, into say, Google or Yahoo. I know from experience that I have to smarthost, as Gmail and Hotmail/Outlook.com reject silently any mail that come direct from my mail server. It's a pain, but there are solutions out there.
- pjc50 10y agoYou can't really do it as a noob. I mean, you can get a hosted VM and install Exim and Dovecot and drop in your domain name in the right places, but there are a lot of little things you have to deal with in order to get your mail to other people and others' mail to you without getting drowned in spam. Then you're fundamentally responsible for it and it can break while you're on holiday. I used to do this, and still hang on to my own mail domain that I've had for 16 years, but I pay for it to be hosted now on a small provider.
- austinjp 10y agoI doubt that being a noob is compatible with running a mailserver for many reasons. I've seen this mentioned a few times on HN: https://mailinabox.email/ https://mailinabox.email/ No experience with it myself.
- ForHackernews 10y agoYou can run http://www.iredmail.org/ http://www.iredmail.org/ which is an integrated toolkit of open source tools to make a mail server.