On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 15:20:42 -0700 Eric House <[email protected]> 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 Thank you Eric for taking the time to think about this. Not only is this a problem for you, but It's a problem for others when they wish to speak to you, and not in addition wanting to share something with Google and all the people they sell your data to. Hosting your own email is incredibly easy, and with a proper setup you will find just how shitty gmail's service actually is in regards to spam filtering and latency. My recommended stack for hosting your own mailserver today is OpenSMTPd, rspamd, and Dovecot. OpenSMTPd for the actual mail transfer, rspamd for spam filtering on the receiving end as well as DKIM signing, and dovecot for the IMAP access. There is a great article here on setting that up, https://poolp.org/posts/2019-09-14/setting-up-a-mail-server-with-opensmtpd-dovecot-and-rspamd/ and I would be glad to help anybody else who still is having trouble after reading that article. One of the things you may be interested in transitioning over slowly, as in sending your mail through your own mailserver until you feel comfortable, then later setting up receiving too and switching our mx records around to your own server. receiving and transmitting can be done on different services. regarding your requirement for multiple addresses, it's just a matter up updating /etc/aliases and reloading the alias table. That way you can write some scripts to use a unique email address for every service you may sign up with, so when you start receiving spam you know WHICH corporation sold your data. If your setting up your own mailserver, it's always a great time to setup PGP signing as well. Mutt and Claws-mail have great support for S/MIME and almost all BSD and GNU+Linux distros come with with the GNU implementation, GnuPG in their base system. -- ________________________________________ / Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' \ | Sunday. | | | | -- William Shakespeare, "The Taming of | \ the Shrew" / ---------------------------------------- \ \ /\ /\ //\\_//\\ ____ \_ _/ / / / * * \ /^^^] \_\O/_/ [ ] / \_ [ / \ \_ / / [ [ / \/ _/ _[ [ \ /_/ _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
