‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, August 17, 2020 3:33 PM, Ashley Dixon <a...@suugaku.co.uk> wrote:
> How many concurrent users will be connected to the mail server? How much > traffic > will the S.M.T.P. server receive (read: how many e-mails arrive on a daily > basis)? If you really don't trust your V.P.S. provider, and your mail server > is > small-ish, you could just skip all the trust issues and buy a cheap Raspberry > Pi > for £20 or so. 1 user (me). about 2 real daily mails. maybe 10 in peak times. that, plus gentoo's users list, plus spam. but i don't see much spammers in protonmail's spambox. so i guess my spam is low. > Running a mail server over a domestic connection presents some issues, such as > dynamic I.P. ranges appearing in the Spamhaus blocklist, or some > tyrannicalesque > I.S.P.s blocking outbound port 25 (S.M.T.P. submission port), but it is > possible > to have a smooth, self-administered mail server, providing you can put in the > time and effort. I have been doing it myself for a few years with Courier and > Postfix (although I wouldn't recommend Courier; Dovecot is far superior). > > What do you think? interesting. do you have reverse ptr records for your domain name pointing to your home's ip? did you pay extra fees for this ptr to your isp? i wonder if price-wise, and uptime-wise, that would beat a cheap vps at 20 bucks/year.
