Re: [Trisquel-users] Home email server

[someone]

Im using the ovpn.se VPN service which allow for static ip and reverse DNS  
self-administration. Personally using it for my from-home-self-hosted email  
server to avoid being spam-sorted.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Home email server

[someone]

I was in your situation before - also surveillance concerned and learned  
computer stuff mostly due to interest instead of education. Im now  
self-hosting email successfully from home - not mailinabox - without being  
spam-sorted by gmail and hotmail etc. If you (or someone else reading this)  
wants to migrate to home-hosting, then my own findings on home email server  
suites and some guides for self-hosting are here:


1.  
https://useritsecurity.wordpress.com/self-hosting-guides-2/how-to-easily-host-your-own-email-server/


2. under Webaddress / Domain and below:  
https://useritsecurity.wordpress.com/self-hosting-guides-2/self-hosting-general-guides/


I hope it's useful to someone.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Home email server

[greatgnu]

very good, knacky ^^

Re: [Trisquel-users] Home email server

[matt]

Supertramp/lloydsmart: thank you both so much for pointing out Mailinabox.  I  
migrated my personal domain to it a month ago.  My Mailinabox server scores  
10/10 at mail-tester.com and received an "A+" security evaluation from a scan  
by Qualys SSL Labs.  I couldn't be happier with it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Home email server

[mcz]

I have to agree with you: I stopped watching the mailinabox tutorial when the  
guy said "this will take about an hour or two".
When you think that the people you communicate with must do as much for the  
whole thing to make sense, you can be that only a few would try it.


Even gpg is intimidating.

In the long run, maybe dark mail might be worth it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Home email server

[dguthrie]

if I recall SpamAssassin is actually called ClamAssassin, and uses ClamAV.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Home email server

[lloyd]

I've been using this for a few years and it's fantastic!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Home email server

[lloyd]

Mailinabox (https://mailinabox.email) is very good and has made this easy to  
set up. The author insists it's designed to be run from a VPS, but I run it  
in a VM on my home server and it works marvellously. All you need is a static  
IP. The ability to set reverse-DNS at your ISP also helps.


SPAM isn't an issue for me - spamassassin works really well.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Home email server

[strypey]

"They did a reverse DNS sub-delegation so I control forward and backward DNS  
resolution."


Sentences like this are the reason most people don't host their own email and  
probably never will ;) What I think is more realistic, at least in the short  
term, is setting up more not-for-profit community email hosts like RiseUp,  
and social enterprises like OpenMailBox, so that even non-geeks can have a  
choice of email services that are not pre-pwned by The Stacks (Hotmail,  
GMail, Yahoo etc).


Increasing the number of people who are competent at running mail servers for  
such organisations (and others kind of federated servers eg GNU Social/  
Hubzilla) needs to be a priority for the software freedom movement.  
Especially sharing knowledge about how to harden such servers against  
interference, whether by states, corporations, spammers, or others.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Home email server

[jason]

" I can't change that, only my ISP can, but it wouldn't bother doing it for a  
home Internet user."


I guess my ISP is nice then: They did a reverse DNS sub-delegation so I  
control forward and backward DNS resolution. All from a small "mom and pop"  
ISP that allows servers in their TOS and assigns a group of static IPs (a  
/29.)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Home email server

[martin]

I have a personal mail server, but I find that other's anti-spam systems make  
my email server almost unusable sometimes.  In fact, one the only email  
service I could reliably communicate with is GMail.  Others block my emails  
for reasons I could hardly fix.  Most notably:



They block me because of anti-spam services (namely Spamhaus) which labels  
whole IP ranges as spammers, because someone on that IP range did spam at  
some point.  I can't just change my IP network, so I can't fix this problem.
They block me because the reverse IP address doesn't correlated with my email  
domain.  I can't change that, only my ISP can, but it wouldn't bother doing  
it for a home Internet user.



Both are awful reasons to be completely blocked by someone, keeping in mind  
that I'm using DKIM, SPF and DMARC.  This especially awful when I'm replying  
to someone, so they know I'm not a spammer, yet they still block me for no  
good reason.


If you have your own mail server, please don't go crazy on the spam filtering  
and think what you're doing before blocking at mass.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Home email server

[greatgnu]

Easiest way I know of is ->
https://mailinabox.email/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Home email server

[chris]

I agree. A simple automated device would help with this. I'd like to see  
something like this combined with GPG built-in and a simplified user  
interface.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Home email server

[t8mf4nu6lizp]

Here are some interesting blog posts related to running your own mail server

* B. Kuhn on spam http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2015/09/15/email.html

* B. Mako Hill on the recipient's role  
https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours


I think everybody should run their own, we don't need the current  
gatekeepers.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Home email server

[legimet . calc]

I haven't done this myself, but based on the little that I've read about this  
topic, the main components are an MTA, to implement SMTP, and an MDA, for  
getting your mail locally (through IMAP or POP3). Also DKIM and spam  
filtering, and perhaps virus filtering and webmail.


There's a good guide here:  
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-to-run-your-own-e-mail-server-with-your-own-domain-part-1/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Home email server

[jason]

Indeed. Set up a GNU/Linux box with Postfix with handle SMTP, Dovecot for POP  
and IMAP, and something for webmail. (I use Usermin for webmail  
http://webmin.com/usermin.html because it's so easily integrated with the  
rest of the system.) Add in procmail and SpamAssassin for anti-spam stuff and  
you've got an email server. There are many How To-type of documents online.  
I've been running my own email server since 1999. These programs are what I  
use but others can be substituted.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Home email server

[sethcchrn6]

Much appreciated, but I'd like to own the server my mail is on.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Home email server

[calmstorm]

Posteo.de 1$ a month is an extremely trustworthy email website look it up,

openmailbox.org is an okay one also, with one exception, they do track you  
when your not in the webmail login area or logged in.


Those two are my recommended picks though. both are under free software  
licenses.  and posteo.de has no cookies whatsoever. I use privacybadger and  
many other addons for blocking scripts so those two are your best bet.


Openmailbox.org is also free by default. 

[Trisquel-users] Home email server

[sethcchrn6]

Hi everyone,

This whole Clinton email server has got me thinking. I currently use an email  
service that is part of the U.S. PRISM surveillance program. I'd like to  
change this but I don't trust my mail to other services. How difficult and  
expensive would it be to set up a home email server, register a domain on a  
free/open source DNS, and run it myself. Additionally (and why I post about  
it here) would Trisquel be useful in making this happen? I don't have a  
formal education in computer science but I'm moderately knowledgeable.


Thanks.