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You basically follow a web installation wizard, create a domain and then you can use Roundcube (included) or any IMAP client. Couldn't be easier.
It's one thing to easily obtain my own personal mail server, it's another entirely to understand and be able to maintain/improve it.
A Docker image would be brilliant.
The irony of Docker IMHO so far is that it almost makes installation that needs configuring with user-specific values harder, unless they know how to build docker instances themselves.
+1 to what codexon said about the rate limit, but this seems absolutely amazing
Very nice. Comes with Roundcube so you've got a webmail client available. - DKIM signing on outgoing messages (opendkim). - The machine acts as its own DNS server and is automatically configured for SPF and DKIM (nsd). I remember many people running their own SMTP server used to have massive issues with their outgoing mail being silently or non-silently ignored or sent to the spam folder. Does this take care of this?…
Are you speaking of people who failed to disable relaying ?
They're such a pain to use that since becoming the sysadmin in charge of our work email servers, I gave up running personal ones as well and just pay FastMail to deal with it for me - ain't nobody got time for that.
I often dream of taking a sabbatical and writing modern, user-friendly SMPT and IMAP[0] servers. If only so I could use them at work on my return and save myself a lot of time and stress.
[0] Possibly even with Exchange ActiveSync support - Microsoft licenses the protocol, but I've no idea what it costs http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/IP...
With every solution that comes along to solve the "host your own email" problem, and every guide that takes you step-by-step, I always find myself just wanting a huge wiki-style site with all the topology of a good, secure email/groupware server explained in plain English rather than a package that purports to do it all for me. Something with breakdowns/discussion about the different options that exist for the differ…
Very nice. Comes with Roundcube so you've got a webmail client available. - DKIM signing on outgoing messages (opendkim). - The machine acts as its own DNS server and is automatically configured for SPF and DKIM (nsd). I remember many people running their own SMTP server used to have massive issues with their outgoing mail being silently or non-silently ignored or sent to the spam folder. Does this take care of this?…
I don't remember this ... can you elaborate ? Are you speaking of people who failed to disable relaying ?
You had to jump through certain hoops to ensure that your mail arrived. DKIM/SPF are two such hoops (or related techs, anyway; both have detailed Wikipedia entries). Maybe it's not so much of an issue these days.
With every solution that comes along to solve the "host your own email" problem, and every guide that takes you step-by-step, I always find myself just wanting a huge wiki-style site with all the topology of a good, secure email/groupware server explained in plain English rather than a package that purports to do it all for me. Something with breakdowns/discussion about the different options that exist for the differ…
It remains a constant frustration to me that Postfix, Exim, Cyrus, Dovecot and the like still feel as if they belong very much in the "here be dragons" territories of the Unix world. Configuring these systems is an exercise in constant frustration and bafflement. They're such a pain to use that since becoming the sysadmin in charge of our work email servers, I gave up running personal ones as well and just pay FastMa…
I've been running it for a few years now, admittedly with a very basic setup. My config is about ten lines long, written in five minutes or so. I haven't really needed to touch it since.