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While I don't believe the google account deletion hysterics I did setup dove cot imap to trial hosting my own email. On friday I got an unshakable feeling of k
by parfe 15y ago
While I don't believe the google account deletion hysterics I did setup dove cot imap to trial hosting my own email. On friday I got an unshakable feeling of keeping all my eggs in one basket. squirrel mail is no gmail replacement but it's good enough so far, and I read mostly via imap
- cageface 15y agoI managed my own email sever for a long time but eventually grew tired of fighting spam. Unfortunately spam is so rampant now that you're going to have to devote a lot of personal attention to do 1/10th as good a job as GMail to fight it.
- bhousel 15y agoapt-get install postgrey That's really all I do...
- cageface 15y agoAdmittedly it's been a few years since I did this. Maybe it's gotten easier. What about other mail servers rejecting mail originating from your server? I had a lot of trouble with that too.
- protomyth 15y agomake sure you have a valid MX record and make sure the ip you get is not in a blocked segment in the major spam lists. You might need to do some work.
- icebraining 15y agoYou can use Gmail with your own domain. That way, it's easy to switch if this ever happens (just a matter of updating some DNS records).
- drivebyacct2 15y agoSquirrel mail is neither the easiest to setup, nor the most feature rich. Just saying, it doesn't have to be all or nothing.
- fungi 15y agoits still not gmail, but i use http://roundcube.net/ http://roundcube.net/