![]() If you don’t know much about email behind-the-scenes, you’d need to learn about SPK, DMARC, and other spam-control measures. Also, if your IP address (even if static) comes from a pool of residential-use IP addresses, you’ll have trouble with mail delivery to a lot of places that use brain-damaged spam control Trend Micro. Trying to run an email server behind a dynamic IP would be fraught with trouble these days. ![]() I think that a solid, reliable internet connection with a static IP address and at least one domain that you own and control would be a minimum requirement. It got rather out of hand (I think at one point I was pushing 1,000 users, many with multiple accounts) so I was kind of glad when gmail changed the independent email landscape and many of my users could relocate. The alternatives in those days (Hotmail and Yahoo and your ISP) were abysmal, and I felt as though I was making the internet a better place for my friends. I’m somewhere between the “don’t do it!” crowd and the “it’s not so bad, and has a lot of advantages.” My farm got pretty big when I decided to offer email service to friends, family, business associates, and acquaintances. One of these guys actually works for a very large company that does IMAP hosting so he really knows the worst pitfalls and keeps me safe. Having hard-core Linux geek friends is definitely a required ingredient IMHO. I will say that I wouldn’t do it if it were just me. Personally, I don’t necessarily agree with all of that, but there is definitely a valid point to be made there. IIRC the consensus was it was a lot of trouble and hard to do, i.e. ![]() There was a thread about hosting your own mail server on here a year or so ago. Plus, I can create a gazillion email addresses for free which I can for example chose to be unique so I know immediately when some company got hacked or sold out my information. I don’t need to deal with ***hole companies like Comcast or sell out my data to Google. I like it because I’m in total control, I have CLI access to it, I can also use it as a web server and I can run my own on-server spam filtering. It used to be an old Sun Sparc station that had a lot of sentimental value to me (one of the first workstations I got to administrate back in college was a Sun), but we migrated to x86 Linux a few years ago. ![]() It’s a linux server a couple friends and I together own and operate out of the bomb proof basement of a hosting provider. Simon - can you expand on how you run your own IMAP server at home? ![]()
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