Advice for setting up a mail server.

Si1v3r · 2011-08-01 22:55:48

Over the past few months I have been slowly merging away from websites that don't regard my privacy.

I've changed search engines to duck duck go, deleted my facebook, and now I would like to get away from gmail too!

The only problem being I know nothing about hosting my own email. I have an arch box that is on 24/7 running a diaspora pod.

What email server would work best with this (If any)?

Last edited by Si1v3r (2011-08-01 23:40:30)

JackH79 · 2011-08-02 04:54:06

This might help.

Or maybe give this a try.

Last edited by JackH79 (2011-08-02 04:56:22)

fukawi2 · 2011-08-02 06:23:07

Si1v3r wrote:

What email server would work best with this (If any)?

You haven't given us any information about what you want the mail server to do....
* POP and/or IMAP?
* webmail?
* Incoming SMTP or fetch mail from another account(s) elsewhere?

Si1v3r · 2011-08-02 15:55:08

fukawi2 wrote:

Si1v3r wrote:
What email server would work best with this (If any)?
You haven't given us any information about what you want the mail server to do....
* POP and/or IMAP?
* webmail?
* Incoming SMTP or fetch mail from another account(s) elsewhere?

IMAP.

Webmail is a big plus.

Incoming SMTP.

fukawi2 · 2011-08-02 23:49:59

Si1v3r wrote:

IMAP.
Webmail is a big plus.
Incoming SMTP.

For those tasks, I'm personally a fan of Dovecot, Roundcube and Postfix (with postgrey).... They are all well documented and relatively easy to setup and maintain IMHO.

Svenstaro · 2011-08-03 02:25:35

Try my guide. I tried to keep it as simple as possible and maintain it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Si … ail_System

jack.mitchell · 2011-08-12 21:22:49

This was by far the best tutorial I found for setting up my own personal mail server:

http://workaround.org/ispmail/squeeze

I couldn't recommend it enough. There are a few quirks in places with the version differences but some reading around will sort you out.

It's written in a very Archlinux style and explains the concept fantastically.

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