Re: Secure email server setup
On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 08:42:34PM +0000, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 15 Jan 2018 at 14:51:56 -0500, Henning Follmann wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 08:34:33PM +0100, Jonathan Sélea wrote:
> > >
> > > As other people already have said - do you really need emailserver of
> > > this kind?
> >
> > This however is a valid question. A full functional mailserver requires
> > effort and administrative knowledge to setup properly. And your question
> > already hints that the latter is no there yet.
>
> All things computer-related require effort and administrative knowledge
> to setup properly if anything out of the ordinary is being done. "do you
> really need emailserver of this kind" is an indication of something bad
> in the state of email.
>
> Don't do it your way or take advantage of what the net provides appears
> to be the message. Your intentions are verging on the incompetent, or,
> maybe, you are bucking the trend, just use Google like everyone else
> is the message.
>
Well,
honestly I always thought it is very beneficial to run your own mailserver.
But it is also one of the most difficult tasks to master. We have come a
long way from setting up a sendmail server with its unique M4 syntax, but
still you have to understand more than just setting up a smtp server. You
need to understand DNS, SSL, TLS. You have to master at least one form of
authentication method and avoid any possible relay desasters.
Because all this is potentially hard to understand. This was my thought
behind my comment. I would like to encourage anybody to try and set this
up. However this will take some time before this should be practiced on an
openly connected server.
-H
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Henning Follmann | hfollmann@itcfollmann.com
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