I have run my own mail server now for 20+ years. its is runnig postfix , with spamassain. the users have imaps, and roundcube www gui.
It had been running fine, and have been updated HW / OS a lot of time over the years, now its runnig on rocky O/S
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
Would never want to do it. I don’t wanna be responsible for the outage and them needing an important email.
If you are looking to do this then go check out Mail in A Box
Great collection and super helpful forums
Buy yourself a cookie!
As someone who has zero experience hosting anything, what are the benefits of doing this?
Thank you!
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!
Do you know if this setup could run on 512mb of RAM? I tried to set up mailman 3 but it gets OOM-killed immediately
You can, as long as you aren’t trying to do virus scanning - ClamAV needs a couple of GB on its own
Nope sorry, that is to little ram. I don’t know how much ram my mailserver uses but will look
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.
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 😁
Now for the Final Challenge, write an eli5 tutorial on how to host and maintain a mail server!
I can’t take credit for writing it, but here you go!
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?
