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I just host my own email these days. Not going to rely on any 3rd party anymore.

by educar 9y ago

fosco 9y ago
do you have a guide on doing this successfully? do you have email on your phone as well?
- specialp 9y ago
  You can have email everywhere with IMAP and SMTP. Even phones. One thing that is difficult running your own mail server is assuring you do not get spam filtered for running on a cloud server netblock. I had to set up DKIM, DMARC and SPF. I used this for setup: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix To get a full stack going with proper SSL auth it is somewhat involved. The good thing is once you do it, it works reliably and you OWN your email. Complying with every anti spam measure is critical though because you will be most likely sending mail to others on large servers that will reject your mail otherwise. Even then I had a lot of problems with Yahoo to get whitelisted, and Verizon just summarily blocks Digital Ocean hosts.
- kuschku 9y ago
  This is a famous guide most self-hosting users run: https://workaround.org/ispmail/jessie https://workaround.org/ispmail/jessie
- educar 9y ago
  I use cloudron for self-hosting mail. Yes, it works perfectly fine on mobile.
- ionised 9y ago
  Ars Technica had decent little guides for setting up secure web server and mail server; Secure Web Server series; https://arstechnica.com/series/web-served/ https://arstechnica.com/series/web-served/ Mail Server Series https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-to-run-your-own-e-mail-server-with-your-own-domain-part-1/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-t... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/taking-e-mail-back-part-2-arming-your-server-with-postfix-dovecot/* https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/takin... https://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/taking-e-mail-back-part-3-fortifying-your-box-against-spammers/ https://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/taking-e-mail-back-... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/taking-e-mail-back-part-4-the-finale-with-webmail-everything-after/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/takin...

I just host my own email these days. Not going to rely on any 3rd party anymore.

by educar 9y ago

I just host my own email these days. Not going to rely on any 3rd party anymore.

fosco 9y ago

do you have a guide on doing this successfully? do you have email on your phone as well?

specialp 9y ago
You can have email everywhere with IMAP and SMTP. Even phones. One thing that is difficult running your own mail server is assuring you do not get spam filtered for running on a cloud server netblock. I had to set up DKIM, DMARC and SPF. I used this for setup: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix To get a full stack going with proper SSL auth it is somewhat involved. The good thing is once you do it, it works reliably and you OWN your email. Complying with every anti spam measure is critical though because you will be most likely sending mail to others on large servers that will reject your mail otherwise. Even then I had a lot of problems with Yahoo to get whitelisted, and Verizon just summarily blocks Digital Ocean hosts.
kuschku 9y ago
This is a famous guide most self-hosting users run: https://workaround.org/ispmail/jessie https://workaround.org/ispmail/jessie
educar 9y ago
I use cloudron for self-hosting mail. Yes, it works perfectly fine on mobile.
ionised 9y ago
Ars Technica had decent little guides for setting up secure web server and mail server; Secure Web Server series; https://arstechnica.com/series/web-served/ https://arstechnica.com/series/web-served/ Mail Server Series https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-to-run-your-own-e-mail-server-with-your-own-domain-part-1/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-t... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/taking-e-mail-back-part-2-arming-your-server-with-postfix-dovecot/* https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/takin... https://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/taking-e-mail-back-part-3-fortifying-your-box-against-spammers/ https://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/taking-e-mail-back-... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/taking-e-mail-back-part-4-the-finale-with-webmail-everything-after/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/takin...