Hi Matthieu, I do think a budget of 50€ a month to be overkill and hope we could get a James server on a cheap 10€/month dedicated server.
(I deployed successfully a cassandra-elasticSearch-activemq guice James server on a 20€/month server years ago.) I would thus opt for a Guice-JPA with Lucene indexing combo. However, as one cannot add the driver jar on the class path using guice, without extra development, this means using derby embedded database. Cheers, Benoit On 23/04/2020 14:17, Matthieu Baechler wrote: > On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 13:15 +0100, David Matthews wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am about to deploy a James instance for personal usage. I have a >>> restricted budget (say 50€/month) so I'm looking for the best setup >>> possible for that target. >> >> hi Matthieu >> >> It's not so easy to understand what information you're hoping for, > > You are right. Thanks for your try, I will try to refine my questions. > > Given my budget, I'm wondering which hardware/software combination is > the more relevant. > > For example: > > * Should I take a big VM and choose Postgres/JPA backend with ActiveMQ > and Lucene? > * Should I choose a big VM with Cassandra/ElasticSearch and Rabbitmq? > * Or should I go the container way with docker compose and another > selection of software component? > > Each solution has some benefits and as I didn't had to target that kind > of setup in the past, I'm wondering what people do. > >> but I assume some sort of virtual machine offering is going to meet >> your needs. I have experience of VMs at Bytemark and Linode, but I'm >> not well informed about which companies offer the best service/price, >> although both of those two are OK. >> >>> * IMAP + SMTP (in and out) >>> * TLS + SPF + DKIM >> >> You're talking about working to a budget and deploying your own James >> server, so surely you'll deal with configuring James to give IMAPS >> access and SMTP yourself? > > Yes, configuring is not an issue. > >> Here's my 2 cents worth on SPF and DKIM. >> >> 1)It's absolutely essential that you configure your domain's DNS with >> these (and also DMARC) and that James signs outgoing email with your >> DKIM private key. If you don't do that you'll be relying on >> recipients at yahoo, gmail, hotmail etc to whitelist your email >> address to get them delivery to inbox rather than junk folders. > > Thank you for the tip. > >> 2)The effective way to avoid get deluged with incoming spam yourself >> is to configure James to use DNSBLs. If you do that, my experience is >> that you don't really need to worry about checking SPF and DKIM (or >> DMARC) on incoming email. Fact is that most spammers are already in >> these blocklists, so just dropping everything that has been caught >> there will solve the incoming spam problem at least 95%. I find that >> with that in place even running spamassassin offers little extra. > > Ok, good to know > >> Here's a couple of Howto's to set up James (including IMAPS, DKIM and >> DNSBL) >> >> https://dmatthews.org/java_email.html >> >> and to configure your domains DNS with SPF, DKIM and DMARC. >> >> https://dmatthews.org/email_auth.html >> >> That last page is rather tinyDNS specific, but it will be of some >> help even if your domain's DNS server uses some other system, in >> which case feedback would be appreciated and will be added to that >> page. >> > > I will definitely look at your guides, they look great. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-h...@james.apache.org
