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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

#2
Oh wow. This sounds awesome! About a year and a half ago I tried to set up my own mail server on a cheap VPS, but could not get it to work for the life of me. It's sort of a stressful thing to set up as well - failure is both high-consequence and invisible, and I'm never quite sure if what I'm doing is secure or correct. Count me as a fan of the idea - I'll try setting this up later!

Re: Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack

#4
It would be nice if this could be ported to something like Ansible so that we could add more host targets easily (ie: Fedora, CentOS, Arch, etc).

Great job. Mail configuration is pretty hard in the number of steps and amount of configuration that needs to be done to get it right.

Re: Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack

#5

It would be nice if this could be ported to something like Ansible so that we could add more host targets easily (ie: Fedora, CentOS, Arch, etc). Great job. Mail configuration is pretty hard in the number of steps and amount of configuration that needs to be done to get it right.

https://github.com/al3x/sovereign is linked to in the repo. sounds like what you're looking for.

Re: Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack

#6

It would be nice if this could be ported to something like Ansible so that we could add more host targets easily (ie: Fedora, CentOS, Arch, etc). Great job. Mail configuration is pretty hard in the number of steps and amount of configuration that needs to be done to get it right.

Would also be very nice if someone set up an auto-deploy such as the one Tinfoil did for VPNs: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/vpn/new

Re: Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack

#9
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? "Mostly" really isn't good enough.
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