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Can you explain more about your setup? How do you avoid being black listed and other common mail sending issues?

howard941 8y ago
Sure! I run qmail, dovecot, djbdns on one of their stock FreeBSD 11-RELEASE images on their cheapest static-IPV4 level. Blacklisting hasn't been an issue (knock wood) anywhere except for Yahoo and they were impossible mail recipients when I had a real business static CIDR space so screw em. The VSP is great about maintaining the inverse address mapping. I have the SPF records, not sure that they do anything. Edited for copy and expletive deletion
- jason_slack 8y ago
  Cool. Any kind of setup guide you can point me to? I've got some familiarity with this from about 10 years ago when I used to host my own mail.
  - howard941 8y ago
    Sorry, nothing for the whole kit and kaboodle. But there are good individual stand-alone guides: For the underlying guts, the FreeBSD handbook https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/index.html https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/index.html Freebie book online for qmail is at http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html . lwq.html or the OS's port collection will point you to DJB's (mandatory) djbdns config instructions. Do you remember how to manually edit DNS zone records? He uses a unique format but you'll still need to remember which resource records to use. By now there must be great online DNS resources? I don't know them. O'Reilly's dead tree books weigh on my bookshelf. dovecot comes with excellent documentation and man pages and worked out box of the FreeBSD port collection. I left out one other use. I subscribe to about 30 mail lists, all but NANOG o/s related. I have those emailed to the VSP instance and use a really simple mail2news.py script to pipe it to rnews for forwarding to a private INN server that sits behind a dynamic IP to preserve and read mail lists with a newsreader as $DIETY intended. With a static presence and a cheap VSP it's so much easier to make things work the way you like them. I hope you try it and get into it as much as I do. More copyediting...

Sure! I run qmail, dovecot, djbdns on one of their stock FreeBSD 11-RELEASE images on their cheapest static-IPV4 level. Blacklisting hasn't been an issue (knock wood) anywhere except for Yahoo and they were impossible mail recipients when I had a real business static CIDR space so screw em. The VSP is great about maintaining the inverse address mapping. I have the SPF records, not sure that they do anything. Edited for copy and expletive deletion

jason_slack 8y ago
Cool. Any kind of setup guide you can point me to? I've got some familiarity with this from about 10 years ago when I used to host my own mail.
- howard941 8y ago
  Sorry, nothing for the whole kit and kaboodle. But there are good individual stand-alone guides: For the underlying guts, the FreeBSD handbook https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/index.html https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/index.html Freebie book online for qmail is at http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html . lwq.html or the OS's port collection will point you to DJB's (mandatory) djbdns config instructions. Do you remember how to manually edit DNS zone records? He uses a unique format but you'll still need to remember which resource records to use. By now there must be great online DNS resources? I don't know them. O'Reilly's dead tree books weigh on my bookshelf. dovecot comes with excellent documentation and man pages and worked out box of the FreeBSD port collection. I left out one other use. I subscribe to about 30 mail lists, all but NANOG o/s related. I have those emailed to the VSP instance and use a really simple mail2news.py script to pipe it to rnews for forwarding to a private INN server that sits behind a dynamic IP to preserve and read mail lists with a newsreader as $DIETY intended. With a static presence and a cheap VSP it's so much easier to make things work the way you like them. I hope you try it and get into it as much as I do. More copyediting...