From: jason-tuhs@shalott.net (jason-tuhs@shalott.net)
Subject: [TUHS] Who is running their own mail server and what do you run?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:13:57 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.21.1709201302190.6255@waffle.shalott.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170920162502.GN25650@mcvoy.com>
> I tried running my own server on mcvoy.com but eventually gave up, the
> spam filtering was a non-ending task.
>
> If someone has a plug and chug setup for MX I'd love to try it.
I run my own mail. Linux and FreeBSD servers, running qmail (plus lots of
patches) and dovecot (and local, direct maildir access on the servers, for
users who want to run alpine or mutt).
The stackable filters concept in qmail (and other DJB software) makes it
ridiculously easy to write plugins using the language/toolkit of your
choice, so you can easily pass all mail through spamassasin, clamav,
defer-first/gray-listing setups, RBLs, etc. I spent some time on this
setup years ago, and haven't really touched it since, yet it still seems
to keep the spam down to manageable levels.
The real challenge in hosting your own mail seems to be on the outbound
side. Google seems to be pretty distrustful of small, hobbyist systems,
even though none of my IPs has ever been used for spamming, and I took the
time to setup stuff like SPF. I haven't heard too many complaints lately,
but for a while, I had a number of users complaining that their emails
were always being marked as spam for gmail users...
-Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-20 20:13 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
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 [this message]
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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