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Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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Post by plg »

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…

I'm not sure the purpose here is to save people money. It's more about autonomy and privacy, no?

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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Post by ausjke »

illuminated wrote: post #21

How does this compare to Kolab.org? For quite some time I want to migrate my emails to my own server and the first contender on my list was Kolab.

Same here, tried citadel and am interested in kolab

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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Post by ausjke »

hrjet wrote: post #53
69_years_and wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To add to the fray: https://yunohost.org/ is an option too for easy install and setup of a mail server - there was a recent HN item on them a while back. Been using it for a month or two and it's worked great so far. Needs Debian. Supports multiple domains.

I had good experience with Citadel for an internal mail solution. It's a little old fashioned, but good enough for our needs. The setup was especially easy with the default ubuntu packages.

I'm also testing citadel for a small team, the issue is that I can't get thunderbird/lightning to sync the calendar with citadel, email works fine, will be checking kolab soon

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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Post by ausjke »

serf wrote: post #14

does ownCloud still throw webdav errors for self-signed certs?

can owncloud do mail at all? its calendar works, but no support for tasks, I don't even know it does email

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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Post by gingerlime »

joshdata wrote: post #54
gingerlime wrote: post #28

One thing worth noting if you consider running any mail server yourself - is checking the IP address / range that your VPS provides you. I've had outbound email blocked or blacklisted with IPs from DigitalOcean - especially on Yahoo, whereas Linode or AWS give you better reputation. It was virtually impossible to get unlisted on Yahoo for IPs that are owned by the hosting provider, and I'm not sure all providers woul…

Mail-in-a-Box includes a check like this in its setup script, actually. [I'm the guy behind the project.]

That's cool. I just had a look, and noticed a couple of rbl checks. Very smart idea.

However, I have to say, I had occasions where the IP was not listed on any RBL, but Yahoo was still flagging my IP.

I don't remember the exact error Yahoo were returning, but I think it was basically blocking all email... Perhaps even from the entire network range, since it was listed as residential or something of that sort (apologies, but I really don't remember the exact details, it was quite a while ago)

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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Post by pdonis »

One thing I particularly like about this: managesieve support. I am only aware of one major email service that uses sieve as its filter language to begin with (FastMail), and none that provides a managesieve interface to the filter rules. Since these are supposed to be the Internet standards for email filtering, it seems very surprising that practically nobody actually uses them.

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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Post by joshdata »

gingerlime wrote: post #65
joshdata wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mail-in-a-Box includes a check like this in its setup script, actually. [I'm the guy behind the project.]

That's cool. I just had a look, and noticed a couple of rbl checks. Very smart idea. However, I have to say, I had occasions where the IP was not listed on any RBL, but Yahoo was still flagging my IP. I don't remember the exact error Yahoo were returning, but I think it was basically blocking all email... Perhaps even from the entire network range, since it was listed as residential or something of that sort (apologi…

Yup, didn't mean to imply that I had solved the whole problem. :)

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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Post by metadata »

I have a Linode VPS and am happy to fire up another VPS to handle email exclusively. In fact, I already did and installed Mail in a Box as mail.mydomain.com. I have to say (being a developer with enough Linux knowledge to handle hosting and simple stuff) that nameserver setup is completely confusing. I should stop using Linode nameservers? If so, I should set up glue records and place that into NameCheap domain specification instead? And then set up www CNAME to point to original website server? Very confusing... Why not having a section in the guide titled something along: "Adding Mail-in-a-Box as additional server to your existing website"? I am not sure if that defeats security/reliability, as External DNS section message is kind of scary:

"Although your box is configured to serve its own DNS, it is possible to host your DNS elsewhere. We do not recommend this.

If you do so, you are responsible for keeping your DNS entries up to date. In particular DNSSEC entries must be re-signed periodically. Do not set a DS record at your registrar or publish DNSSEC entries in your DNS zones if you do not intend to keep them up to date."

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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Post by ytjohn »

clarry wrote: post #48
manishsharan wrote: post #46

The problem is not setting up an email server; the problem is in ensuring you email is delivered/visible. I set up an email server vps with my domain and domain keys etc but my test emails to my family ,who use Yahaoo and Gmail, would not get delivered. I gave up !

I have another problem.. my ISP blocks incoming traffic on smtp. For no good reason. I'd have to upgrade to a business class connection ($$$). Unfiltered end to end connectivity would be nice. Preferrably on a symmetric line. I'd call that Internet access.

I'm not running a mailserver anymore, but I use smtp-as-a-service for things that need to send email notifications.

I've been using mandrillapp.com for over 2 years now, completely free. Other people like mailgun.com. Anytime I need to setup a nas or monitoring system that needs to send out notifications, I create a new api key then add that into whatever device needs to send email.

I also for a brief period used the service as a "smarthost" for a shared mail server (not mine directly). This technically worked fine, but became an issue as end-users would get viruses and start sending spam. However, mandrill would notify you of this issue and you'd see high rejection rates. I could even view the rejected message (privacy concerns aside) to see headers of who was sending them. So while I wouldn't recommend it for a shared server, it would be fine for a personal server.

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