Hi Andy Just email, just me mainly :) Definitely no more than 5ish users. IMAP a definite please No need for user management for users Web interface would be nice, but not a major requirement Antispam and Antivirus would be lovely A decent way of backing up mailboxes securely would also be good please! Thanks, -Matt Daubney On 29 April 2015 at 09:59, Andy Smith <andy(a)bitfolk.com> wrote:

That looks magic! Ta :) On 29 April 2015 at 13:12, Keith Williams <keithwilliamsnp(a)gmail.com> wrote:

(Apologies for the previous bottom post) That link looks good (haven't looked in detail). I've been running an email server for nearly 10 years and the only major thing I'd alter in the link's recommendation is to use an OS with a long support life, CentOS or Ubuntu LTS. A well configured email server will just sit there doing its thing for years and you want to be troubled by as fewer OS upgrades as possible. Debian only gives you a couple if years before you need to plan upgrading. I've previously used CentOS for my servers but would probably go with Ubuntu LTS now as uses more more current software (support for newer encryption ciphers etc). -- Simon On 29 April 2015 13:21:20 BST, Matthew Daubney <matt(a)daubers.co.uk> wrote:

I'll have to read through that myself. The setup I use at the moment, and have for some years is: o Exim as the MTA to handle all the SMTP stuff o Dovecot as the MDA and IMAP server, to drop mail into the mailboxes and handle IMAP connections (it also does POP on one of my servers) o Roundcube for webmails o I virtual host, so no real user accounts o Greylistd is used for greylisting, which I only do for servers/domains in the RBL lists I use That last bit is probably worth explaining a bit further. When I last rebuilt my mail server I only setup grelisting for anti-spam initially, and until recently it has worked well enought that I've not bothered with anything more sophisticated. Basically everything that isn't on one of the RBLs I've configured is let through, but anything on an RBL is given the temporary failure. This resulted in most spam not being attempted again, but any servers that had been mistakenly listed would just get delayed. So far this has cleared out all the really unpleasant stuff since they never bother to retry. Things have picked up a bit recently though, so I'm looking into using Spamassassin or something simlar again. For a long while though, it has been a very easy, low overhead solution that has worked well enough for me :) Two things I'm looking to improve: 1. as mentioned above, I plan to add Spamassassin or something to uprate the filtering now they seem to be retrying more 2. My setup involves hubbed hosts using my Bitfolk VPS to forward on to my local server. This unfortunately leaves me with batches of email accepted at the Bitfolk stage being frozen in the mail queue of my local server because they have not return address. I either need to tweak the config on my Bitfolk server or let mail come directly in. They sit in the queue for a while and then get deleted though, so I've not made the time to tidy things up yet! This handles 4 local accounts on each of two servers (4 accessed from the internet one by parents, and 4 on the local one by family), plus about 10 that forward on. These are split between 10 domains (I think), well 2 each on one, 4 on another, the 10 forwarded on another and the other for are pretty much just me, 4 being variations of my work domain. ** Matthew Daubney <matt(a)daubers.co.uk> [2015-04-29 13:22]: ** end quote [Matthew Daubney] -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 ============================================================================= Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Ralls House, Parklands Business Park, Forrest Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6XP

"I use debian+exim+dovecot+prayer webmail. One of these days I'm going to give up and pay fastmail or someone similar to maintain it." That's possibly one of the best things I did last year. I hosted 6 or 7 domains and ~ 20 mail adddresses for customers and the questions about missing mail and spam ground me down. I learned a lot by managing my own (small) mailserver, but most of all I learned that it's easier to let someone else manage it and concentrate on what I'm good at. On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Michael Stevens <mstevens(a)etla.org> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 03:01:17PM +0100, Matt Horrocks wrote: It's a bit like growing your own vegetables. If you don't particularly enjoy doing it, you shouldn't do it, as the alternatives are easier and probably even cheaper. I like running my own mail server and it's fairly hassle-free once set up properly, but it wasn't exactly trivial and it's easy to do things wrong and miss emails, or start spamming. FWIW, I use Postfix and Dovecot and have set up both SPF and DKIM. I have a professional interest in spam, so I don't filter much. I'm the only user, so Mutt works fine for me. Martijn.