I installed by hand, but am very interested in upping the number of people using self-hosted email, so interested in helping with that.
-serge Quoting Phillip Susi ([email protected]): > Last year I got fed up with gmail randomly deleting one of the > "duplicate" messages I would get via a mailing list as well as being > Cc'd on, so I registered my own domain and set up mail-stack-delivery on > a $5/month vps with Amazon lightsail. I guess I'll need to take a > closer look at what this package actually does and see if I can help fix > any problems with it. > > On 3/20/2018 10:08 AM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > > Hello, > > since Ubuntu 18.04 has reached feature freeze we started to think about > > 18.10. > > One of the changes ahead is the dropping of the mail-stack-delivery package > > (part of dovecot). > > > > This package was created a long time ago with the intend to simplify > > several steps of a mail server setup, for example to get a safe ssl secured > > default installation. > > It is essentially almost only a postinst to set up some better defaults. > > > > But the bit that I can derive from bug reports and such indicates that it > > is almost unused these days and has become an unused maintenance debt (it > > started to show it's age - no more matching e.g. recommended ciphers). > > > > Furthermore the world has moved on: > > - For encryption ssl is now default in dovecot-core > > - In general the hosting your own mail service has become less attractive > > - If users want to set up a mail server still they often look more for e.g. > > for Mail-in-a-box [1] > > > > For all of these reasons we intend to drop the mail-stack-delivery package > > in 18.10 > > > > If there is a big love/consumption of the package we might have missed > > please speak up. > > In that case we likely want to drop it from dovecot still, but community > > could take over maintenance in a separate package that lives in universe. > > > > [1]: https://mailinabox.email/ > > > > > > > > > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
