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A few years back I was asked to set up a mail server on an AWS server for some small non-profit organization. I am a software developer of 25 years with a lifel
by random_upvoter 4y ago
A few years back I was asked to set up a mail server on an AWS server for some small non-profit organization. I am a software developer of 25 years with a lifelong habit of tinkering with OS installations and the like, so I thought "sure, how hard can it be?". Here is my warning for you all: do not enter this highway to hell unless you actually are a sysop who is specialized in setting up email servers.
- hnarn 4y agoIs it even worth it for most people? Aren’t there SaaS services like mailgun etc these days that make it kind of a no-brainer to not roll your own.
- Nextgrid 4y agoThere might be privacy/compliance/cost requirements that make hosted services a non-starter.
- sbayeta 4y agoI run my own email using mail-in-a-box running on a 5 dollar Linode, works like a charm with almost no maintenance (the little maintenance I do is always requested automatically by the system itself, and I'm notified by email)
- random_upvoter 4y agoBut I don't suppose the clients of your server include seventy year old ladies with 10 year old Macbooks that can't handle TLS 1.2?
- inopinatus 4y agoHonestly, I've being building and running ISPs of every scale since the late '80s, and I'm a source code contributor to some widely used mail servers, so I am that very model of someone who others might suppose knows what they are doing, and still the prospect of setting up a reliable email service from scratch today would give me pause to say "are you sure an existing service can't be used"?