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I run my own email since about 20 years. My current setup is different from the author and I like it better. I had his setup a few years ago I think. - postfix
by zobzu 13y ago
I run my own email since about 20 years. My current setup is different from the author and I like it better. I had his setup a few years ago I think.
- postfix
- Dovecot
- RoundCube
- SpamAssassin w/ sa-learn sa-update and razor
- Clamav + Clamav-milter
- MariaDB
Spam: Not an issue.
Features: DKIM, DMARC, SPF checks
Maintenance: what maintenance? I update the programs with my distro package manager and that's basically it.. Whoever talked about this being hard....
Webmail: I like RC much better than gmail, nuff said.
- mikevm 13y agoWhat about the reliability of your home Internet connection? Isn't that a major issue? You can have a power outage, ISP problems, or your server might simply die. What happens to the important emails you might miss?
- nacs 13y agoMail servers are made to attempt redelivery if a mail is undeliverable. Most mail servers will attempt redelivery for multiple days before disposing of it so it shouldn't be an issue.
- dingaling 13y agoFurthermore, to address the 'server on fire' issue. If you build the mail server and its ancillaries up in a VM ( or number of VMs ) then you can sync VM to another host on a schedule, or even live. Set-up a heartbeat ping and the alternative host can bring-up its copy of the mail server VM in a few seconds.
- zobzu 13y agoNo big deal, its pretty reliable, but also, but i got an MX at a friend's place. Never lost a mail, even if my server goes down for a couple of days. Mail actually retries for a certain amount of time by default, so short downtime generally causes no problem at all. Longer ones do require the 2nd MX, but yeah, I do that. In about 15 years i think the backup MX helped twice so far (which is probably totally worth it) the mail itself is also replicated there in fact