But I thought SMTP was simple! ;) is spam filtering pretty good on Postfix and mailinabox? I think I only used mailinabox once by my old employer but that was ages ago and my boss already had it setup. On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 10:08 AM Aaron Jones wrote: > https://mailinabox.email/ > > I run this. I have helped six people set this up. I have used it for two > years now myself. I love it. Takes most of the work out of administration. > > On Dec 16, 2017, at 9:45 AM, Matt Graham wrote: > > On 2017-12-16 09:24, Andrew McRobb wrote: > > I was thinking of running my own email server for personal use and > > maybe a PBX system using FreeSwitch (also to avoid spam phone calls) > > in my min-farm. Google surprisingly bad at detecting spam, and I know > > I could maybe throw together a simple SMTP setup perhaps using > > something already made or throw something together in Erlang. -- Just > > like the ability to control every aspect of the server, IMHO. Anyone > > have experience in this department, that could give me any tips? > > > Do not try to write an SMTP server from scratch. Doing it right is very > complicated. Install Postfix or Exim and use that. I have run Postfix on > my VPS for the last few years, it works pretty well, and the configuration > file is easy to understand and modify. Can put the complete config in a > tarball and send it to you as an example if you want. > > You'll also need to run qpopper or courier-imap or dovecot, which is a > separate topic, not quite as complicated, but may have a gotcha or two. > When I set that up, it was putting the mail in the wrong directory, and it > wasn't at all obvious how to make it do the right thing. I use > courier-imap to provide IMAP-over-SSL, and I usually get to this mail > account via roundcube (web mail client) or sometimes K9 Mail (android mail > client). > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Andrew McRobb Full-time Software Developer Part-time Freelancer