Comment on What I host myself

Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  On residential connections it’s a bit pain in the rear, but if you get VPS (or something similar) it’s perfectly manageable. You just need to maintain stuff properly, like having proper DNS records, and occasionally clear false positives from spam lists. The bigger issue is to have proper backups and precautions, I’ve hosted my own emails for over 10 years and should I lose all the data and ability to receive new messages it would be a massive personal problem.

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• Ron@zegheteens.nl ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I also have a mail filter, I have been hosting my own mail server for the last 25 years.

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  • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Out of interest what are you using? I was postfix/courier for a long time, with a must migrate to dovecot 10 years ago. Finally migrated this year and the performance difference is noticeable

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    • Ron@zegheteens.nl ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I recently moved to Mailcow, it’s a one in all solution. My spam filter is Proxmox mail gateway, also very user friendly.

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• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s not worth it but some people don’t mind the cost.

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  • Eirikr70@jlai.lu ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What cost?

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    • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Real email security gateways cost money. There’s no good way to deal with it at small scale.

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      • Ron@zegheteens.nl ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They don’t have to cost money. The mail filter appliances are all based on postfix, spamassassin and a virus scanner like clamav. The thing you pay for is the nice gui.

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      • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Depends what you mean by “security”

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• Eirikr70@jlai.lu ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It is hard to set up and you might need an SMTP relay since most ISPs close port 25. But it is feasible.

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