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iRedMail has exactly the same components, and from what I can see almost exactly the same flow logic, except its available on BSD platforms as well as linux.
While I can understand the paranoia, bottom line is that the number of domains that can successfully send mails is now seriously limited to a few big players who now have a virtual monopoly on emails. Which is not really good in my opinion...
I have a vanity domain, and used to be able to use GMail to send email as that domain [1], and forward received mail from that domain back to GMail.
But with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC (or something), this has broken and such received email gets marked as spam and/or phishing.
I don't know how to fix the forwarding/receiving flow [2], because GMail will see the message coming from an arbitrary source, but being forwarded by an intermediate (my hosting provider's forwarding email server) which will fail its integrity checks.
I have not been able to understand how to solve this. Clearly, forwarding servers aren't a well-regarded use-case in this new era of verified email flow.
Also, I'm not just talking about GMail. I used to do forwarding for my family who used a variety of providers, so I can't just switch to GMail (via Google Domains) for my entire domain.
[1] GMail still offers that feature, under Settings->Accounts and Import->"Send mail as"
[2] the sending flow is easy: just add gmail's SPF to my own domain's
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How many people understand that man page, and how many people understand a web interface? I think it’s a clear winner.
I hate to be an elitist jerk, but if you can't understand a man page describing a single file format then maybe running an email service is something best outsourced.
But an admin UI is more than just for creating mailboxes. It can also manage quotas, the spam filter, provide setup instructions for the end users, …
Offtopic, but have people had any success maintaining a personal email domain as forwarding to the major email providers? I have a vanity domain, and used to be able to use GMail to send email as that domain [1], and forward received mail from that domain back to GMail. But with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC (or something), this has broken and such received email gets marked as spam and/or phishing. I don't know how to fix th…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated_Received_Chain
Offtopic, but have people had any success maintaining a personal email domain as forwarding to the major email providers? I have a vanity domain, and used to be able to use GMail to send email as that domain [1], and forward received mail from that domain back to GMail. But with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC (or something), this has broken and such received email gets marked as spam and/or phishing. I don't know how to fix th…
Dovecot, Roundcube, ClamAV, Rspamd are all battle-tested and reasonable choices, but the choice of Haraka, a Node.js-based SMTP server, feels dubious. Why not exim or something similarly solid and well-understood?
That's the goal, to avoid things as "solid" as exim.
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I hosted my own mail for some time and got into trouble with the school of my kids because they did not receive my reply to their mail. I self hosted because I wanted to prefer not to be part of the huge o365/Gmail/iCloud monocultures. Last year I moved my mail to an old fashioned shared webhosting account at Hetzner. Very happy with it!
> Last year I moved my mail to an old fashioned shared webhosting account at Hetzner. Very happy with it! How exactly is that solving the problem? If anyone does something remotely spammy from that ip, your mails are spam again too. And you probably got lucky that the ip you're sitting on was warm and trusted to begin with. You didn't really find a solution, the problem simply hasn't occurred yet for you or you are n…
So either get a package at some of those smaller providers with a dedicated IP, or go to one of the big providers (Google, Microsoft) and use their highly trusted IPs, that everybody whitelists by default.
Offtopic, but have people had any success maintaining a personal email domain as forwarding to the major email providers? I have a vanity domain, and used to be able to use GMail to send email as that domain [1], and forward received mail from that domain back to GMail. But with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC (or something), this has broken and such received email gets marked as spam and/or phishing. I don't know how to fix th…
Offtopic, but have people had any success maintaining a personal email domain as forwarding to the major email providers? I have a vanity domain, and used to be able to use GMail to send email as that domain [1], and forward received mail from that domain back to GMail. But with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC (or something), this has broken and such received email gets marked as spam and/or phishing. I don't know how to fix th…
The simplest solution is to set up IMAP on your mail server and have remote mail accounts fetch from it. Most email providers can be configured to fetch via IMAP.