Mail-in-a-Box

#1

Post by of » Fri, Sep 05, 2014, 8:42 PM UTC

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

#2

Post by techdragon » Sat, Sep 06, 2014, 12:41 AM UTC

ownCloud needs to integrate this kind of easy email setup.

I already run an ownCloud server but deliberately avoided moving my email to it due to the less than ideal state of email on ownCloud

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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Post by brongondwana » Sat, Sep 06, 2014, 1:29 AM UTC

It's a great idea except that for one person it's going to cost a lot more than buying an account on FastMail (disclaimer: I work there) or any of the other hosting sites (even before you start start thinking redundancy and backups - we have about 10Tb of disk for every 1Tb of pure email quota, by the time you count search indexes and RAID and 3x replication redundancy - two local one offsite)

For more than one person it can get cheaper, but you're going to be on call to fix it every time it breaks - because those other people aren't going to like waiting until you need it. Have fun with that (and I say this after being paged at 3:30am last night to fix a problem that was only affecting redundency for about 1% of our userbase - no user visible problems - most issues are solved without user visible outages)

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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Post by jph » Sat, Sep 06, 2014, 2:05 AM UTC

Great project, thank you Josh. I am donating to your project and will also offer $100 to help fund the creation of an apt-get deb package, if you or anyone here would like to commit to creating it.

I run mail servers with Postfix and much of the same setup, to enable custom domains, scriptable responders, message tagging, and the like. Using apt-get to install Mail-in-a-Box would be wonderful.

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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Post by spindritf » Sat, Sep 06, 2014, 2:07 AM UTC

brongondwana wrote: post #3

It's a great idea except that for one person it's going to cost a lot more than buying an account on FastMail (disclaimer: I work there) or any of the other hosting sites (even before you start start thinking redundancy and backups - we have about 10Tb of disk for every 1Tb of pure email quota, by the time you count search indexes and RAID and 3x replication redundancy - two local one offsite) For more than one perso…

Fastmail costs $40/yr. You can get a half-decent VPS for that with a few bucks to spare on Tarsnap.

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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Post by IgorPartola » Sat, Sep 06, 2014, 2:09 AM UTC

jph wrote: post #4

Great project, thank you Josh. I am donating to your project and will also offer $100 to help fund the creation of an apt-get deb package, if you or anyone here would like to commit to creating it. I run mail servers with Postfix and much of the same setup, to enable custom domains, scriptable responders, message tagging, and the like. Using apt-get to install Mail-in-a-Box would be wonderful.

I will look into creating a .deb package. No $100 necessary for me. My email address is in my profile, I'd anyone wants to connect before I can put together a pull request.

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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Post by IgorPartola » Sat, Sep 06, 2014, 2:31 AM UTC

What service would the more experienced out there recommend run this on? AWS seems rather expensive, but Digital Ocean wouldn't provide much storage space. Also, what about reliability? Any advice on not getting blacklisted for sharing a subnet with spammers? Or do people generally run setup like this old school: on a server in their bedroom?

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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Post by oops » Sat, Sep 06, 2014, 2:51 AM UTC

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

#9

Post by lukeholder » Sat, Sep 06, 2014, 3:05 AM UTC

oops wrote: post #8

See also: https://github.com/al3x/sovereign

wow, that look awesome, thanks for sharing. Especially like that it is a ansible playbook!

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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Post by mrmondo » Sat, Sep 06, 2014, 3:08 AM UTC

Love the idea, I do wish it was based on Debian and not Ubuntu though. Ubuntu's package testing team leaves a lot to be desired and I've found Debian in general a lot more stable and secure over the years.