Huge advantage to hosting your own mail due to third party doctrine, so this is awesome, even if it is hard. Mail might be the one service I would be most reluctant to outsource.
Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack
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Re: Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Jeff Atwood talks about this: http://blog.codinghorror.com/so-youd-like-to-send-some-email... . . And its unlikely that the code takes care of all these things. For example, how are you going to configure the reverse ptr in code?
Even if it can't set the PTR it's self, it could at least detect if your PTR is missing or wrong, and display that information to you with some advice on how to resolve it and how important it is.
Thanks for the idea! I've added a test for PTR:
https://github.com/JoshData/mailinabox/commit/ec11241a7a619a...
Re: Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack
#83Please put a strong rate limit on the dns server to prevent it from being used for ddos attacks. The last thing the internet needs is more clueless users with dns servers.
Hi,
Mail-in-a-Box uses 'nsd', which is a non-recursive DNS server. I don't think it can be used to relay DNS queries in a DDOS attack. But if you meant something else, please let me know and/or file a ticket (I don't think I'll be looking here for replies).
Re: Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack
#84> It is a mail server in a box aimed to be deployed securely into any cloud infrastructure. It provides no user interface to send or check one’s mail but implements all of the underlying protocols that other applications (mail clients), such as Google K-9 for mobile devices, Mailpile, and Mozilla Thunderbird, can interoperate with. The combination of Mail-in-a-box and Mailpile seems pretty exciting. Since running you…
Don't know yet, but if you have thoughts please open an issue!
Re: Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack
#85Be aware: Rackspace (and surely many other cloud server providers) intentionally submit their IP blocks to DNS blacklists to dissuade spammers from using their hosts to send/relay mail. I'm not sure if the other big players do this but it wouldn't surprise me. Same goes for most consumer-class cable modem ISPs.
I don't know about Rackspace, but if your mailhost is on Amazon EC2, you can use something like authsmtp.com or dyn.com who will sell you smtp relay service for cheap. Easy to setup and use.
Re: Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack
#86Although I do run at the moment my own email server with postfix, dovecot and the rest, I'm thinking for some time to replace that with Kolab [0] - a similar package of "everything email hosting related in a box" solution with an extra advantage of supporting active sync which I find very valuable.
Re: Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack
#87After toying with the idea for a while, I've settled on using a service like Mailgun or Sendgrid is the best decision when it comes to setting up email. Otherwise, it's just too much work for little in gain (as far as I'm aware). I'm curious to hear what others think.
Re: Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack
#88Be aware: Rackspace (and surely many other cloud server providers) intentionally submit their IP blocks to DNS blacklists to dissuade spammers from using their hosts to send/relay mail. I'm not sure if the other big players do this but it wouldn't surprise me. Same goes for most consumer-class cable modem ISPs.
I wouldn't say that Rackspace intentionally submits their IP blocks for DNS blacklisting. Consider that on Rackspace's cloud you can build a cloud server and you will get a 'recycled' IP from their block. This IP could had been used by other people for other purposes. You never know who could've used your IP for what purposes. Having those blocks blacklisted makes sense when you think of that.
Re: Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack
#89Be aware: Rackspace (and surely many other cloud server providers) intentionally submit their IP blocks to DNS blacklists to dissuade spammers from using their hosts to send/relay mail. I'm not sure if the other big players do this but it wouldn't surprise me. Same goes for most consumer-class cable modem ISPs.
Most of Digital Ocean droplets have their IP blocked. I spent several hours last week configuring a mail server only to find out my email were being rejected from hotmail and godaddy.
Re: Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack
#90After toying with the idea for a while, I've settled on using a service like Mailgun or Sendgrid is the best decision when it comes to setting up email. Otherwise, it's just too much work for little in gain (as far as I'm aware). I'm curious to hear what others think.
I love Mailgun and use it for every project that needs to send out email, but you have to admit it doesn't address the OP's purpose: To decentralize and own your own email