If you want to do something similar yet hands-on, I really like Ars Technica's series: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-to-run-your-own

If you want to do something similar yet hands-on, I really like Ars Technica's series: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-to-run-your-own-e-mail-server-with-your-own-domain-part-1/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-to... Also, for those of you with mobiles that have ActiveSync clients, Francisco Biete's fork of the Zarafa ActiveSync (Z-Push) implementation is really stable, it will do calendar and contact syncing with ownCloud, and it supports remote wipe from your own CLI. https://github.com/fmbiete/Z-Push-contrib https://github.com/fmbiete/Z-Push-contrib