Hi Ken, On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 11:23:35 -0400 Ken M wrote: > Just curious how many of you use openbsd to run your own personal > email server? Do you find it a hassle to manage in any way?
Being a postmaster (email server administrator) and hostmaster (DNS server administrator) is fun, hectic, and takes about 5 years to learn. OpenBSD is the best OS for both tasks (I've worked for an ISP doing both roles, on other operating systems). > Back story my family all has email addresses through the domain I > have. Which basically will forward to a gmail account. Save yourself the trouble and let them use their gMail accounts/addresses directly. They'll soon be getting Android or Apple phones, so let them use their Google/Apple accounts themselves. > The kids .... are getting old enough to use their own accounts for > things and not just through the school which sets them up with google > accounts to use through their chromebook. Let them use their Google account themselves. > So my wife really doesn't like the idea of setting them loose on > their own email accounts, and I don't necessarily disagree with her, > but I disagree on the way to do it. In a gmail point of view all I > can think of is shared passwords for for the kids. I don't like that > because first of all they could change it, second of all monitoring > their email means literally reading their email. What about their Google 'Hangout' instant messages? Or their Messenger/Facebook messages? Or their Twitter/Tumbler/Reddit/etc/etc/etc messages? Why not let them grow up? They will soon mature and leave home anyway. Are you going to be a permanent policeman/ISP in their adult lives?? If you want to become a hostnaster and postmaster for _yourself_, then do it. By the time you're skilled, your children could have left home. Forget the wife & kids - don't be a slave to them man! Do what you want, for your own personal technical skills. Are you more interested in being a sysadmin, webmaster, netadmin, hostmaster or postmaster? What do *YOU* want to do with your time? Cheers, -- Craig Skinner | http://linkd.in/yGqkv7
