I have run my own mail server now for 20+ years. its is runnig postfix , with spamassain. the users have imaps, and roundcube www gui.

It had been running fine, and have been updated HW / OS a lot of time over the years, now its runnig on rocky O/S

  • Im_old@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    The ultimate boss fight is hosting your email server AND making your family use it

    • cooopsspace@infosec.pubEnglish
      19·
      1 year ago

      Actually to be fair, mine works fine and always has. The final boss is making Hotmail/live/Microsoft actually accept your email despite you jumping through all the hoops to have perfect spam score.

      • Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Everyone keeps saying that but I just can’t see it. The only time my mails were rejected was because I didn’t know what I was doing at the beginning of my journey. Now, whenever I changed my stack or did some major updates the past 20 years or so, I just go to 2-3 sites that analyze my mail server from the outside and tell me if there is anything wrong. The free tier is always more than enough. Just make sure there is at least one service in the list where you send an email to a generated mailbox and have it analyzed. Just looking at the mail server is not enough to find all potential configuration issues.

        I aim at a100% score. It’s time consuming the first time around but later it’s just a breeze.

        • cooopsspace@infosec.pubEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Mine also works fine though. That being said I do only apply for jobs using this email so if you have a problem with hosted email providers I probably don’t want to work for the company anyway.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Would never want to do it. I don’t wanna be responsible for the outage and them needing an important email.