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The complaint is fair though. Trying to find a complete or the "correct" guide to something is very difficult even when you already know roughly what you are do
by lbriner 5y ago
The complaint is fair though. Trying to find a complete or the "correct" guide to something is very difficult even when you already know roughly what you are doing.
I took me ages to work out how to setup postfix properly from about 10 slightly different "guides". The Postfix book wasn't even that helpful. There are also lots of very out-of-date guides that might have been OK for 2015 but not anymore. They don't get deleted because "link juice"
It is sad but true but you get one little bit wrong and you potentially leave a door wide-open.
- plainnoodles 5y agoPostfix is a special kind of hell though, in that getting a good setup requires wading though decades of legacy stuff and patching together a bunch of non-default stuff to get, for instance, dkim signing and stuff working right. I've done this before myself, and agree it was super annoying and not fun, but I also think it is potentially the biggest outlier in self-hosting difficulty I've encountered. Lots of services are barely more than - apt install, systemctl enable --now, ufw allow 8080 (if you even firewall within your network).
- Karrot_Kream 5y agoI actually found Postfix fairly easy to configure once you have a solid understanding of Email (which took me a good while at first). Dovecot on the other hand...