You asked:
What are those of you who have the expertise to run an email server
doing?
Running it on my own. Postfix, Dovecot, Roundcube being the core bits.
Do you handle your own mail, or do you pay a service to do it for
you?
I do handle my own. Though I am considering using my domain registrar,
Gandi, as the host. It would be included with the annual fee for
registration, they have Roundcube. So, yeah. This impulse is motivated
by my recent hospital stays. Make sure my wife understands to keep
sending them money annually, and she will have the service.
If the former, what are the leading choices on a Debian server?
Debian? Arch! OK, I'm sorry, but don't have the background to answer.
If the latter, services to be recommended?
Check with your domain host for their provisioning of email services.
Gandi provides quite a bit. Perhaps yours does also.
---
Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon
Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity
On 2020-09-20 15:20, Eric House wrote:
I've used a personal domain for years, and the email address attached
to it is the one I care about most, though of course I have a few
gmail and other addresses. For years I ran my own email server. But
when my ISP crashed and burned (remember SpiritOne and the crook who
destroyed it?) and I didn't have a lot of time for research I started
paying Google $5/month for a g-suite account. (Everything else moved
to Linode, which has been great. I'm pretty sure the recommendation
came from this group. Thanks!)
I'd rather not be giving Google my money, but I worry more about the
data they're certainly scraping from my mail. Yet when I look
occasionally into the Spam folder I can see that I'm getting something
in addition to storage for my (now) $6/month.
And so the question: what are those of you who have the expertise to
run an email server doing? Do you handle your own mail, or do you pay
a service to do it for you? If the former, what are the leading
choices on a Debian server? If the latter, services to be recommended?
I suspect my requirements are pretty limited. When I had the ability
to add unlimited email addresses and to run code on every incoming
email I used both, but I've gotten used to not being able to do that
sort of thing. So I can probably live with a pretty simple service as
long as I can access it on a smartphone and through a web interface.
Thanks!
--Eric
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