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Also, a lot of software in the field has never made sense to me. I know what the parts do, but I couldn't tell you how to assemble it all. It all seems very old
by sascha_sl 5y ago
Also, a lot of software in the field has never made sense to me. I know what the parts do, but I couldn't tell you how to assemble it all. It all seems very old and seperate software more for historical reasons than anything else.
I ran mailinabox for a year or two, but eventually I just didn't want to maintain a piece of software I didn't understand where the documentation seemed actively hostile and presumptuous about me having read all the other parts. I'm sure the postfix docs make an okay reference, but understanding it as a whole, god no. I'd rather do Kubernetes from scratch.
Fastmail is just fine for me.
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoPostfix and Dovecot are classic magic word projects - completely useless unless you can work out the magic words, and then they work fine. The docs for magic word projects never to seem to prioritise essentials. So [obscure feature someone last used in 1984] gets equal billing with [essential fundamentals] and you have no idea which is which because - you haven't understood the docs yet. I'm still running my own servers. I sorted out the spam issues, and they're basically zero maintenance now. But it certainly took a while, and a fair amount of copying other people's ideas of what a config file should look like, with plenty of trial and error.
- ssl232 5y agoAgree regarding learning the magic words. There''s probably no substitute to just diving in and setting up a server with a domain you can afford to get blacklisted for a few weeks while you make mistakes. But once you know the magic words, Dovecot's documentation is actually fairly decent these days: https://doc.dovecot.org/ https://doc.dovecot.org/.
- throw0101a 5y agoUseful step-by-step instructions: * https://workaround.org/ispmail https://workaround.org/ispmail
- jjav 5y agoIMO the postfix documentation is particularly good.
- joshdata 5y ago> I ran mailinabox for a year or two ... the documentation seemed actively hostile Maintainer of Mail-in-a-Box here. I'm sorry you had that experience. Definitely was not the intention of the project to be hostile (but I can see how it might come off that way).