Comment on I've try to set up my E-Mail server š¬. Dovecot + Postfix. I can sends, but I can't receives.
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz āØ14ā© āØhoursā© ago
Thereās various permission errors on the log file, Iād start from those. Also your dovecot configs seem a bit funny to me, usually mails are not stored to user home directories with dovecot, but instead somewhere under /var, likely youāll want /var/vmail. Logfiles are pretty good with these tools, so pay close attention to those.
And take your time to understand what the config options actually do. Too permissive configurations will get your sever to every spamlist on the world pretty quickly.
How can I prevent my server to put anything to spamlist? š¤
Donāt send spam, behave nicely, have proper configuration on postfix and dovecot, set up SPF and preferably DKIM, keep your domains reputation clean and so on. Youāll likely still end up on some lists, so you need to manually dig them trough and ask nicely for removal.
Self hosting email has a pretty bad reputation and many will strongly advice against it, but in reality itās really not that bad. But email as a whole is more complex beast to manage than simple website or running Jellyfin for your family and friends. You need to understand how the mail routing side of things work (SMTP itself, authentication for it encryption included and so on) and also you need to understand how DNS works and how various entries are related to mail transport. Then youāll likely want at least some kind of spam filtering and so on. And with email youāll need to have proper backup scenario too so that you donāt lose the likely pretty important data. All of that is perfectly doable and itās not as difficult as many claim it to be, but thereās a bunch of stuff you need to understand and implement all of them correctly.