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I run this. I have helped six people set this up. I have used it for two years now myself. I love it. Takes most of the work out of administration. > On Dec 16, 2017, at 9:45 AM, Matt Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2017-12-16 09:24, Andrew McRobb wrote: >> I was thinking of running my own email server for personal use and >> maybe a PBX system using FreeSwitch (also to avoid spam phone calls) >> in my min-farm. Google surprisingly bad at detecting spam, and I know >> I could maybe throw together a simple SMTP setup perhaps using >> something already made or throw something together in Erlang. -- Just >> like the ability to control every aspect of the server, IMHO. Anyone >> have experience in this department, that could give me any tips? > > Do not try to write an SMTP server from scratch. Doing it right is very > complicated. Install Postfix or Exim and use that. I have run Postfix on my > VPS for the last few years, it works pretty well, and the configuration file > is easy to understand and modify. Can put the complete config in a tarball > and send it to you as an example if you want. > > You'll also need to run qpopper or courier-imap or dovecot, which is a > separate topic, not quite as complicated, but may have a gotcha or two. When > I set that up, it was putting the mail in the wrong directory, and it wasn't > at all obvious how to make it do the right thing. I use courier-imap to > provide IMAP-over-SSL, and I usually get to this mail account via roundcube > (web mail client) or sometimes K9 Mail (android mail client). > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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