Good progress! :D
Highly recommend Let's Encrypt - it's from a non-profit called Internet Security Research Group supported/started by the internet giants and others. Most importantly they simplified everything with automation and making it free- you typically so some config the first time then do cetificate renewal in a cronjob. You'll need to do SSL/TLS on your SMTP so other mailservers can connect to you encrypted before delivering your mail. I imagine you'll want to do the same for your IMAP service too :) I believe you can get a certificate for the web service at eg https://mail.example.com then use the same cert for smtp://mail.example.com and imap://mail.example.com PGP: you can set that up later, it runs in your email client so it's totally separate from the mailserver. Paul > > On Jul 18, 2017 at 7:43 pm, <Alex J Lennon via Liverpool > (mailto:liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk)> wrote: > > > > On 18/07/2017 19:03, jn1057 via Liverpool wrote: > Hi everyone! > > > Just to update anyone who is interested, I'm still in the process of > > learning how to host my own email server. Yes there are so many > options > and choices to make. > > So far, I've used namecheap.com to buy my Web > domain. > > Found a reasonable price on: > > therivermerseyside.com > > > next, find a suitable email forwarding service, aaips.net seems to > > offer this for £1.20 /month > > For those of livlug who have already done > this and are laughing at my > plodding progress, are ssl certificates and > pgp keys possible to get > and install after setting up the server? Or do > they have to be tackled > during the set up? > I haven't tried them yet > but Paul Furley was recently tweeting about LetsEncrypt > (https://letsencrypt.org) who are apparently giving away certs for free... > Cheers, Alex -- Liverpool mailing list Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/liverpool > >
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