On 09/08/18 17:23, Ken M wrote: > Just curious how many of you use openbsd to run your own personal email > server?
I've been running my personal domains on OpenBSD for a number of years. So have I suspect a largish subset of the readership here, but I have no idea how many will actually come forward and say so in public. > Do you find it a hassle to manage in any way? If anything I find running everything on OpenBSD makes for less hassle than most other options, because the system is so consistently sane. That said, I've had other systems in the mix for various reasons at various times for places I've worked, but I go for all-OpenBSD setups whenever feasible. > So I guess the end question, is for protecting the email of minors is running > my > own email server, when I have never done it before on any OS, worth it over > some > other solution. And yes I am very open to other suggestions for a solution, > even > if it is something I have to pay for, to avoid sharing passwords or grotesque > privacy infringement of literally reading all their emails. If you've never run a mail server before but are familiar with OpenBSD, please do go the OpenBSD route. Setting up and running a mail service involves learning a few skills. If you already manage DNS for your domain(s) I suppose you have a head start. Anything that comes as part of OpenBSD or packaged for OpenBSD will come with sensible defaults. Please do yourself and the rest of the world a favor and read up properly on the effects of anything you do change. A lot of stuff that appears on the face of it to be trivial actually isn't. I've written quite a few pieces on mail and related topics on the blog (the first URL in the signature) and of course The Book of PF touches on the issue as well, at least the spamd(8) parts. I suppose the "Effective Spam and Malware Countermeasures" (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2014/02/effective-spam-and-malware.html) piece is a goodish place to start. For anyone setting up a mail server these days there are worse things to do than read Aaron Poffenberger's SMTPd mail server tutorial slides and some related materials (https://www.bsdcan.org/2016/schedule/events/691.en.html and links therein). - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
