Then EVERYONE stopped because it's awful. Modern ISPs don't like SMTP floating around, (DKIM, DMARC, SPF) are a pain to maintain over time, exploits will happen, and your free off-the-shelf virus and spam filters suck compared to the big companies seeing billions of messages per day.
How to run your own mail server (2017)
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Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)
#12Alternatively 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)
#13Alternatively 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.
In that case, Fastmail is a good alternative. It’s not quite as good as Gmail on security and anti-spam, but it’s much better on privacy.
Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)
#14Always wonder if any of these guides will ever include decent web-mail?
Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)
#15For example, gandi.net provides web mail on your own domain. Even, better, it has support for wildcard email just like google does.
Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)
#16Alternatively 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)
#17Alternatively 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)
#18https://www.smartertools.com/smartermail/downloads
https://www.smartertools.com/smartermail/business-email-serv...
Re: How to run your own mail server (2017)
#19Always wonder if any of these guides will ever include decent web-mail?