Thank you for the input. And to the others as well. I hate this type of chase where it seems never-ending, for a technology I can’t stand. Managing my current solution has been a problem for ages. I’m not getting any younger. Maybe hosting is the best solution, and I do agree with you about Google. I don’t trust them as far as I can spit.
> On Oct 1, 2018, at 11:37 AM, Peter Eckel <li...@eckel-edv.de> wrote: > > I fully agree with most of the former, except for the Google part. Google is > to privacy what a shark pool is to a carp. If possible, avoid Google at all > cost, and particularly for E-Mail. There are services around that cost a very > small amount of money (e.g. mailbox.org or posteo.de), provide a very > reasonable service and do *not* peek into your mail for advertisement targets > and sell your data to their customers. > > If you want to run your own mail server (there are good reasons to do so, > I've been running my own services for many years now) be prepared for a > learning curve, as mail is not as simple and straightforward as it looks. You > should also run your own DNS in that case, as many modern features of secure > mail services are tightly linked to DNS (e.g. SPF, DKIM, DMARC etc.). DNSsec > is preferred. > > There are some good books around (e.g. the Postfix/Dovecot books by Peer > Heinlein, who incidentally is the owner of the mailbox.org service, but the > Postfix book only seems to be available in German). Without a good foundation > on running mail servers and/or some help from experienced mail server > operators you're almost certain to screw up big time, which in most cases > means ending up on some blacklists or having mail delivered very unreliably. > > As for the software question, I recommend the Postfix/Dovecot setup, enriched > with some additional components to support graylisting, virus checking, spam > filtering, DKIM, DMARC and SPF. Cheers, Bee _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
