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From: khm@sciops.net (Kurt H Maier)
Subject: [TUHS] Who is running their own mail server and what do you run?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:59:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170920165907.GC89991@wopr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170920162502.GN25650@mcvoy.com>

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 09:25:02AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> I tried running my own server on mcvoy.com but eventually gave up, the
> spam filtering was a non-ending task.

I still run qmail, using a patch to pass everything through
SpamAssassin.  Remote IMAP is provided by courier-imap.  This setup has
been in place long enough that I can no longer remember originally
configuring it.

I experimented with moving to OpenSMTPD, but at the time it wasn't
flexible enough to manage spam filtering in a sane way.  I've read
matters have improved, and based on current descriptions it might be
worth revisiting.

Another relative newcomer is rspamd, which can take a lot of the pain
out of spam filtering.  Getting it integrated with my creaky old qmail
setup has been on my TODO for quite a while now.

> If someone has a plug and chug setup for MX I'd love to try it.

Sadly, while my setup has been rock-solid and I have no complaints,
there's nothing plug and chug about it.  The ability to quickly deploy a
new server is one of the things that originally got me looking at
OpenSMTPD, but filtering and user-controlled address creation a la
.qmail-files were showstoppers for me.

khm


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-20 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-20 16:25 Larry McVoy
2017-09-20 16:39 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-20 19:59   ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-20 21:26     ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-20 23:17     ` Robert Brockway
2017-09-21  0:00       ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21  0:08         ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21  0:55           ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21  1:52             ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21  4:14               ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21  5:30                 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21 15:43                   ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-21  0:38         ` Robert Brockway
2017-09-21  1:30         ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-09-21  1:57           ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21  3:04             ` Robert Brockway
2017-09-21  5:20               ` Grant Taylor
     [not found]       ` <20170921042528.E12C5156E523@mail.bitblocks.com>
2017-09-21  4:45         ` Robert Brockway
2017-09-21  4:58           ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21  5:34             ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-21 15:49               ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-20 16:46 ` Warner Losh
2017-09-20 17:01   ` Steve Nickolas
2017-09-20 17:39   ` Henry Bent
2017-09-20 22:54   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-09-20 16:59 ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2017-09-20 17:10 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 17:14   ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-20 18:15   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-20 23:45     ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-20 22:54   ` Steve Simon
2017-09-20 23:31     ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 23:57     ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-21  0:02       ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-21  1:08     ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-21 12:36       ` Steve Simon
2017-09-20 17:47 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-20 17:54 ` Rico Pajarola
2017-09-20 17:57 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-20 18:22   ` William Pechter
2017-09-20 19:11     ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 19:25     ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-20 19:54       ` William Pechter
2017-09-20 19:09   ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 23:26   ` Michael Parson
2017-09-20 18:21 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-20 18:51 ` Corey Lindsly
2017-09-20 20:13 ` jason-tuhs
2017-09-20 22:25   ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-09-20 23:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-21 12:40 ` Ben Greenfield
2017-09-23  9:12 ` Dario Niedermann
2017-09-21 20:05 Norman Wilson
2017-09-21 21:02 ` Grant Taylor

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