I have almost no spam problems on a self-hosted setup using SpamAssassin (after very little training) plus DNS blacklists (spamhaus, surriel, spamcop).
On 9 September 2016 at 16:39, Adam Bolte <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:15:48PM -0700, Nathan Edson wrote: > > Many apologies if this has already been answered a million times. What > > are the current recommendations for libre email services? I've looked > > high and low and seem to come up with the regular suggestions of gmail > > etc... > > > > I don't mind paying a few bucks. I don't need super heavy duty privacy > > (like Tutanota). I ran my own email server for a couple of years and > > tired of the spam and semi constant attention it seemed to require of > > me. Suggestions? > > Were you using greylisting? http://postgrey.schweikert.ch/ > That alone cuts down nearly all spam. > > The LetsEncrypt certbot can automatically take care of certificates. > > You can configure Debian-based distros using unattended-upgrades or > cron-apt to e-mail you when there are security updates to install - or > even have it install security updates automatically if you're > comfortable with that. > > Then all you need to do is dist-upgrade every few years. > > The time-consuming part is setting it all up, and it sounds like > you've already achieved that. > > Cheers, > Adam >
