Anyone here run their own email server for personal use?

[Andrew McRobb]

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 <retro64xyz at gmail.com> 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 <mhgraham at crow202.org> 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).
>
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