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The mailbox at your house doesn't require security patches, trouble-shooting, upgrade cycles, and that's just the software stack itself. When you get to the iss
by amirmc 12y ago
The mailbox at your house doesn't require security patches, trouble-shooting, upgrade cycles, and that's just the software stack itself. When you get to the issue of blacklisting/deliverability that's a whole new set of problems.
Ultimately, I do want to run my own email server but not until it's a lot closer to 'fire-and-forget' (which for me, will be something Unikernel-based).
- Alupis 12y agoZimbra is pretty much what you are after it sounds like. Just set it up once, and it just works. Just keep the OS updated and install any updates Zimbra releases. There is some manual work to get it going up front, but it's not hard. The only way you can guarantee your email is kept private and not shared to any gov't agency or anything is to run it yourself. Then at least they have to serve you directly to get your emails ;P
- egb 12y agoWhat kind of a box do you really need for that, though? The requirements seem to say 4G of RAM, which seems to demand a big VPS or a dedicated box... (would be $40/month for a 4G RAM VPS at digital ocean or Linode)
- fpgaminer 12y agoTake a look at https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox It's not production ready yet, but it aims to be suitable for cheap VPS (current requirement is 1G of RAM, IIRC).
- Alupis 12y agoadmittedly it's intended as corporate email server - ie. MS Exchange replacement. You can run it with less ram, things will just be slower, however if you only have a few accounts, it may not be a big deal. I like it because they package all the components you need: postfix, mariadb, web ui frontend, spammassasian, etc all together and you don't have to do any configurations other than the initial setup script it comes with.