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I have a Linode VPS and am happy to fire up another VPS to handle email exclusively. In fact, I already did and installed Mail in a Box as mail.mydomain.com. I
by metadata 12y ago
I have a Linode VPS and am happy to fire up another VPS to handle email exclusively. In fact, I already did and installed Mail in a Box as mail.mydomain.com.
I have to say (being a developer with enough Linux knowledge to handle hosting and simple stuff) that nameserver setup is completely confusing. I should stop using Linode nameservers? If so, I should set up glue records and place that into NameCheap domain specification instead? And then set up www CNAME to point to original website server?
Very confusing... Why not having a section in the guide titled something along: "Adding Mail-in-a-Box as additional server to your existing website"? I am not sure if that defeats security/reliability, as External DNS section message is kind of scary:
"Although your box is configured to serve its own DNS, it is possible to host your DNS elsewhere. We do not recommend this.
If you do so, you are responsible for keeping your DNS entries up to date. In particular DNSSEC entries must be re-signed periodically. Do not set a DS record at your registrar or publish DNSSEC entries in your DNS zones if you do not intend to keep them up to date."
- joshdata 12y agoHi, metadata. It sounds scary to set up glue records, but so is setting up all of the DNS records manually that you'd need for really good mail: MX, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, and if you want secure DNS and/or mandatory encryption on the wire you'll want DANE records and zone signing. Mail-in-a-Box wants to take over your DNS because it wants to take care of all of this for you. If you run your own DNS, it's still secure. An alternative is to use a new domain name. Thanks for the feedback. [I'm the guy behind the project.]
- iurisilvio 12y agoI had the same problem. Also, I had some DKIM and SPF already configured to external SMTP server. I understand your message, but it is not clear in Mail-in-a-Box interface. What exactly is the problem with my own DNS server? If I want to work without DANE, I can just add all these new records to my DNS and it works out of the box? I started to setup a personal email server several times and abandoned it because it is just too difficult. This time, it was easy. Thanks!
- keehun 12y agoI had problems getting Hover to make glue records for the IP address. I just ended up having to manually enter in the DNS information myself.