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It's easier now, in that we have good well-documented software, but the external environment has changed. While other servers used to just accept the email you
by cbr 13y ago
It's easier now, in that we have good well-documented software, but the external environment has changed. While other servers used to just accept the email you sent, spam countermeasures have gotten complex enough that if you just follow the postfix installation guide you're going to have a lot of your outbound smtp filtered.
- old-gregg 13y agoGrab a free account at mailgun.com and configure it as your outgoing SMTP relay. You'll get an IP address for your outbound traffic which is "clean", monitored and registered with a ton of ESPs. You can also use Mailgun as a proxy for your incoming mails as well, for spam filtering or custom routing purposes.
- dfc 13y agoFull-Disclosure: The comment above was made by the co-founder / CEO of mailgun.
- junto 13y agoOut of interest, how would you go about doing this, especially interested on the inbound?
- furyg3 13y agoIs mailgun a US-based company that would comply with a national security letter if faced with one?
- cakeface 13y agoWhat about Digital Ocean or another VPS provider? What is to stop them from just handing the NSA a copy of my server image complete with all email history, address book, and authorized PGP keys? I'd have even tagged and indexed all the mail for them!
- furyg3 13y agoYes, that's the point. If you are worried about Google cooperating with the NSA, and you decide to roll-your-own mail solution, but are using US-based services like MailGun, you are doing it wrong. :) Moving to a self-hosted solution (even a US one) offers you more privacy protection options than Gmail/Hotmail, that's for sure. But since physical access is everything, using a US-based VPS provider means there is only a small speedbump between the government and your mail. Using a US-based service like Mailgun, while extremely cool, removes even this speedbump, since they will presumably be forced to cooperate in the same way that Google or Yahoo do. The best option would be to host your own mail with a VPS with a very strong privacy record, explicit statements about not cooperating with US inquiries, based and hosted in a country with strong privacy protections.
- dfc 13y agoI have not experienced the troubles you mention with postfix defaults (actually debian's postfix defaults). Can you think of some examples to be on the look out for?