Well I didn’t want google to read my mails, and use the content to generate ads, or profiles on me or my family.
Besides that it’s keep me up to date on mailserver and mailman .
Besides I do it professionally so it was easy
I’m in a similar boat. The only major issue I’ve found people are likely to run into is mass IP blocks from MS/Google. Where do you host it? Cloud provider these days or colo type place?
I watched a talk, “fun with email” by Dylan Beattie, and his personal advice was “dont bother self hosting unless you’re using it for contacting other self hosted users”.
Without the dedicated IT support and clout of a large company he said you’re gonna spend more time asking other servers to whitelist you than you’re gonna actually spend using your email.
Those that are hosting their own mail server, did you stop using regular mail (gmail, outlook etc). Is possible to migrate to self hosted mail? I don’t think I can’t stop using gmail and other google services that’s stopping me from trying to do this.
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As someone who has zero experience hosting anything, what are the benefits of doing this?
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Well I didn’t want google to read my mails, and use the content to generate ads, or profiles on me or my family. Besides that it’s keep me up to date on mailserver and mailman . Besides I do it professionally so it was easy
Thank you!
I’ve been told running an email server is the final boss of self-hosting
The ultimate boss fight is hosting your email server AND making your family use it
I’m in a similar boat. The only major issue I’ve found people are likely to run into is mass IP blocks from MS/Google. Where do you host it? Cloud provider these days or colo type place?
I am currently working on this. I got a static IP and port 25 unblocked from my isp. I am trying to do opensmtpd and dovecot with dkim signing.
I watched a talk, “fun with email” by Dylan Beattie, and his personal advice was “dont bother self hosting unless you’re using it for contacting other self hosted users”.
Without the dedicated IT support and clout of a large company he said you’re gonna spend more time asking other servers to whitelist you than you’re gonna actually spend using your email.
Is that something you can corroborate?
Those that are hosting their own mail server, did you stop using regular mail (gmail, outlook etc). Is possible to migrate to self hosted mail? I don’t think I can’t stop using gmail and other google services that’s stopping me from trying to do this.
I’m am stopping using Google services, mail moved ( newer was there to begin with ) Contact moved Missing calendar, but it will be moved.
I’m de-googling my setup 😁
Buy yourself a cookie!
I’ve been running a mail server for so long I used to understand Sendmail’s M4 configuration language!
If you are looking to do this then go check out Mail in A Box
Great collection and super helpful forums
https://mailinabox.email/
Now for the Final Challenge, write an eli5 tutorial on how to host and maintain a mail server!