Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-11 Thread Ruben Safir
what I said, not what you said... On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 10:41:44AM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Monday, December 11, 2017 1:07 PM -0500 Ruben Safir > wrote: > > >thatis not secure and you might as well use gmail > > > >It is not so hard to just get a static IP and

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-11 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, December 11, 2017 1:07 PM -0500 Ruben Safir wrote: thatis not secure and you might as well use gmail It is not so hard to just get a static IP and put a mail server up. Why do you think this isn't secure? Gmail wouldn't let me run my own spam and AV

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-11 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, December 11, 2017 1:06 PM + Darac Marjal wrote: That's relatively easy. I use the following: Thanks! My recipe for sendmail is here (section Sendmail workaround, near the end of the page), copied from a post on the sendmail newsgroup.

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-11 Thread Ruben Safir
thatis not secure and you might as well use gmail It is not so hard to just get a static IP and put a mail server up. fit/pc has perfect boxes for this, run on about 15w/h power On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 02:42:36PM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > On 12/10/2017 12:39 PM, Stephan H wrote: > >I have

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-11 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 11:23:34AM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Sunday, December 10, 2017 7:05 PM + André Rodier wrote: This is so far what I have achieved: How about MIMEDefang, ClamAV, and SpamAssassin? I'm currently running MD+Clam from sendmail and SA from

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-10 Thread Stephan H
Originally I was on a business connection, so no port blocking. I moved to a residential connection at home and they blocked port 25. So I enabled my VPS in the cloud to relay my mail to the imap server in my home. It's a very simple setup. I only allow a couple IPs to relay anything through

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-10 Thread Kenneth Porter
On 12/10/2017 12:39 PM, Stephan H wrote: I have dovecot postfix setup on my home server as well. I use a virtual server in the cloud as my mx record and mail relay and have my home record on dynamic dns. It's really effective. My MX points at a leased virtual server and my home server uses

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-10 Thread Fabian A. Santiago
On December 10, 2017 5:25:46 PM EST, Stephan H wrote: >Which part? Hosting the email server at home or the relay in the >cloud? > >On Dec 10, 2017 14:53, "Fabian A. Santiago" > >wrote: > >> On December 10, 2017 3:39:05 PM EST, Stephan H

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-10 Thread Stephan H
Which part? Hosting the email server at home or the relay in the cloud? On Dec 10, 2017 14:53, "Fabian A. Santiago" wrote: > On December 10, 2017 3:39:05 PM EST, Stephan H wrote: > >I have dovecot postfix setup on my home server as well. I use a

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-10 Thread André Rodier
Hello Bruce et al, One thing I did not specify. I have very strict idea in the way I am installing a package on a server I put online. Ideally, I want to have some install process I setup once and I don't have to worry about anything, especially security. When I have to install a software,

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-10 Thread Fabian A. Santiago
On December 10, 2017 3:39:05 PM EST, Stephan H wrote: >I have dovecot postfix setup on my home server as well. I use a >virtual >server in the cloud as my mx record and mail relay and have my home >record >on dynamic dns. It's really effective. > >On Dec 10, 2017 2:37 PM,

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-10 Thread Stephan H
I have dovecot postfix setup on my home server as well. I use a virtual server in the cloud as my mx record and mail relay and have my home record on dynamic dns. It's really effective. On Dec 10, 2017 2:37 PM, "Fabian A. Santiago" wrote: > On December 10, 2017

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-10 Thread Fabian A. Santiago
On December 10, 2017 2:49:35 PM EST, "André Rodier" wrote: >Hello Mike, > >Yes, I am using a static IP address, but in theory, you could use a >dynamic one. > >Nothing technically would prevent email exchanges between two boxes, as >long as the SPF records are up to date and the

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-10 Thread André Rodier
Hello Mike, Yes, I am using a static IP address, but in theory, you could use a dynamic one. Nothing technically would prevent email exchanges between two boxes, as long as the SPF records are up to date and the DKIM is properly setup. Unfortunately, some ISPs are simply blacklisting full range

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-10 Thread André Rodier
Thank you, I remember to had a look at this project, and I found it huge. I started mine because I want LDAP authentication. I also wanted less features / programs, less obtrusive, and better attention to small details, like automatic DKIM generation and DNS updates. I hope not to end up with

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-10 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Sunday, December 10, 2017 7:05 PM + André Rodier wrote: This is so far what I have achieved: How about MIMEDefang, ClamAV, and SpamAssassin? I'm currently running MD+Clam from sendmail and SA from procmail, but I'm open to seeing the equivalent solution with

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-10 Thread bruce
Check out https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign/blob/master/README.md Might have some of what you are looking for already done. Bruce On Dec 10, 2017 2:06 PM, André Rodier wrote: Hello everyone, I have been using Postfix and Dovecot for my personal emails for years.

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-10 Thread Jeff Abrahamson
On 10/12/17 20:05, André Rodier wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have been using Postfix and Dovecot for my personal emails for years. > After being tired of reinstalling my personal mail server many times, I > am currently writing some Ansible scripts to do it automatically. Kudos, it's a good

hosting emails at home

2017-12-10 Thread André Rodier
Hello everyone, I have been using Postfix and Dovecot for my personal emails for years. After being tired of reinstalling my personal mail server many times, I am currently writing some Ansible scripts to do it automatically. I obviously checked the other projects, and did not found anything