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.
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 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/wordpressThere is no Darkness in EternityBut only Light too dim for us to see.---------------------------------------------------PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.orgTo subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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