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My suggestion is to select a solid (non-rolling) distro for your mail server, and look for a suitable tutorial for your distro that involves Postfix and Dovecot
by sys42590 4y ago
My suggestion is to select a solid (non-rolling) distro for your mail server, and look for a suitable tutorial for your distro that involves Postfix and Dovecot software.
You'll need a fixed IP address and the ability to have your ISP / hoster configure a sensible reverse DNS entry for that IP address that matches a forward DNS entry that points to the same IP address.
You should at least configure some DNS records to have a proper MX and SPF configuration, too. Your preferred search engine (e.g. Google / DuckDuckGo) is your friend.
For inbound spam filtering it makes sense to configure Spamassassin as a milter
(=mail filter).
If you are a perfectionist, you should look into setting up DKIM for your mail domain.
- greggarious 4y ago>My suggestion is to select a solid (non-rolling) distro If only there was a distro meant to do just this, preferably from a read only media like CD-R. (I pine for the good old days of Knoppix, Eee PCs, and psudoanonymous vBulletins.)
- sys42590 4y agoAs I don't thrust OpenSSL farther than the date of it's next zero day exploit with a fancy name, I'd rather be able to patch any mail server ASAP when the exploit is made public... unless there is a nice mail stack that works with e.g. LibreSSL (SMTP+IMAP+Webmail)...
- cpach 4y agoI would go for Debian. YMMV, but IMO it’s very stable. Very few surprises.
- kevinherron 4y ago> If you are a perfectionist, you should look into setting up DKIM for your mail domain. More like if you want there to be a chance in hell any recipient at a major provider ever receives your email.