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educar | 8 years ago

I just host my own email these days. Not going to rely on any 3rd party anymore.

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fosco|8 years ago

do you have a guide on doing this successfully? do you have email on your phone as well?

specialp|8 years ago

You can have email everywhere with IMAP and SMTP. Even phones. One thing that is difficult running your own mail server is assuring you do not get spam filtered for running on a cloud server netblock. I had to set up DKIM, DMARC and SPF.

I used this for setup: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix

To get a full stack going with proper SSL auth it is somewhat involved. The good thing is once you do it, it works reliably and you OWN your email. Complying with every anti spam measure is critical though because you will be most likely sending mail to others on large servers that will reject your mail otherwise. Even then I had a lot of problems with Yahoo to get whitelisted, and Verizon just summarily blocks Digital Ocean hosts.

educar|8 years ago

I use cloudron for self-hosting mail. Yes, it works perfectly fine on mobile.