How to run your own mail server (2017)

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Post by starbugs » Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 7:10 PM UTC

How to run your own mail server (2017)
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Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)

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Post by joshmn » Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 7:22 PM UTC

Always nice to see this posted. Previously discussed in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16238937

Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)

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Post by benbristow » Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 7:23 PM UTC

Alternatively pay for a GSuite account for like £3 a month (Or Office 365) and all of this is handled for you with superior spam filtering, search, webmail, no manual administration and no issues with email delivery due to other filters thinking your server is a bit dodgy.

It's too much effort to run your own email server well.

Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)

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Post by adontz » Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 7:25 PM UTC

Always wonder if any of these guides will ever include decent web-mail?

Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)

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Post by Naac » Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 7:26 PM UTC

benbristow wrote: post #3

Alternatively pay for a GSuite account for like £3 a month (Or Office 365) and all of this is handled for you with superior spam filtering, search, webmail, no manual administration and no issues with email delivery due to other filters thinking your server is a bit dodgy. It's too much effort to run your own email server well.

But the very first comment of the article explains exactly why one might want to do this as an alternative to gmail:

>> Getting off GMail is one of the best ways to take back your data in the face of dragnet surveillance.

Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)

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Post by q3k » Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 7:26 PM UTC

benbristow wrote: post #3

Alternatively pay for a GSuite account for like £3 a month (Or Office 365) and all of this is handled for you with superior spam filtering, search, webmail, no manual administration and no issues with email delivery due to other filters thinking your server is a bit dodgy. It's too much effort to run your own email server well.

Of even better, use some smaller alternative that is not Google (mailbox.org, protonmail, fastmail, ...).

GMail's de-facto monopoly on email (and especially spam filtering) is a threat to the Internet.

Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)

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Post by Naac » Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 7:26 PM UTC

2017 should be added to the title.

Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)

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Post by gumby » Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 7:26 PM UTC

benbristow wrote: post #3

Alternatively pay for a GSuite account for like £3 a month (Or Office 365) and all of this is handled for you with superior spam filtering, search, webmail, no manual administration and no issues with email delivery due to other filters thinking your server is a bit dodgy. It's too much effort to run your own email server well.

Some of us don't use google. Plus you have to use a web browser. I use a variety of clients as Dovecot is standards-compliant unlike gmail.

Also I run things over my mail database as I have direct access to it.

I'm sure there are some people for whom google is an acceptable option. But it isn't for everyone.

Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)

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Post by breakall » Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 7:26 PM UTC

Should you host your own email server? Yes! It’s a really fun learning project. There are tons of resources out there to make it do-able, so go for it!

Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)

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Post by q3k » Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 7:27 PM UTC

adontz wrote: post #4

Always wonder if any of these guides will ever include decent web-mail?

Roundcube is _acceptable_ and easy to set up (it's just a PHP web app that acts as a full-fledged MUA and connects via IMAP to your MDA, no different than any other mail client).