[kwlug-disc] (Running a VPS) Mail Server? [Was: VPS (again)]

[Andrew Mercer]

Sovereign looks cool. I have a home server myself (including mail 
server, owncloud, etc) and been working on a kickstart to do all this. 
Maybe kickstart + Ansible/Puppet would be a more efficient way to go.

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Andrew Mercer
www.andrewmercer.net

On 2014-12-19 09:45, Myles Braithwaite wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 4:49 AM, B. S. <bs27975 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>> I run a little mail server, and a few small web pages, nothing really
>>> more.
>> 
>> Speaking of ...
>> 
>> The idea of running one's own mail server has always seemed a little 
>> 'scary' - not just to me, but others here have expressed similar.
>> 
>> So many little fiddly bits, DNS stuff [can't recall the term, not DFC 
>> - the MX record isn't the problem, it's the rest], multiple programs 
>> chained together, blacklists, spamassasin, don't know what all else.
>> 
>> Always seemed too much work. Anyone using yahoo these days probably 
>> wonders if it's less work than Yahoo has been!
>> 
>> Is there a current best practices how to on running one's own e-mail 
>> server (IMAP, not POP) out there these days? [Googling it will just 
>> bury you.]
>> 
>> Colin, has it been much of a problem / time consumer, what did you use 
>> to figure out what you needed to get going, and so on?
> 
> Have you seen sovereign[1] yet? It's a collection of Ansible playbooks
> for automating the setup and maintenance of running your own mail
> server (and a bunch of other services).
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/al3x/sovereign
> 
> 
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