Hi,
I run a mail server for myself on a small pc (32-bit, 7 watt Via C7 Eden
cpu) running Devuan. It was originally built on Debian Wheezy back in 2012
following the wheezy guide found at https://workaround.org/ispmail/wheezy/.
After the updates for wheezy trailed off, I followed the instructions on
Devuan to update from Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jesse and then updated to
Ascii. The guide includes instructions for postfix and dovecot, as well as
apache and roundcube for webmail support. One day in the near future, I'll
retire the old hardware and attempt the guide again. Whenever I get around
to rebuilding, I will look at LetsEncrypt to generate the ssl certs for
roundcube and the tls encryption for the imap and smtp connections too. On
the desktop, I'm using claws mail as well as evolution and on android I'm
using aquamail. Pretty much anything that supports IMAP should be fine with
this setup.
Since my ISP is the devil and blocks port 25, I'm using autossh to forward
port 25 traffic to a $5/month vps.
Best Regards,
DECbot
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On September 22, 2020 2:54:12 PM Arnt Karlsen wrote:
Hi,
..devuan to the rescue? Norwegian ISP "Get" is ditching their email
service and pointing their clients to a paid service, which again is
pointing them to Gmail's ad laden services, drawing due scorn. [1]
..since we can do better, I'm thinking "Devuan Email Server Flavor"
sort of distro to put on an old pc or a Raspberry Pi, with all email
on local storage like I've done since the mid 1990ies. Which is
part of my problem: While Claws Mail is neat and easy, Fetchmail
and Procmail are _far_ from newbie friendly.
..expect the Get clientele to be total newbies, who may be capable of
entering their own email account data into a web browser interface
from their Wintendo, so our new email server flavor needs to be kept
as stupid simple as possible to setup and use.
..limit it to a pop3 and imap client and an imap server with local
storage? The big thing is control over your own email, on your own
hardware, in your own home.
..me, I use Fetchmail as an imap and pop3 client to fetch my email,
and Procmail to sprinkle it down my ~/Mail tree, and Claws Mail to
read it, and to write and to send my outgoing email, directly out
thru my isp's smtp servers. That's all I really need.
..the Get clientele will have similar needs, but will need their
"home email server" as stupid simple as possible to setup and use.
Easiest possible newbie email server setup, use and support, ideas?
..the competition:
https://www.popsci.com/set-up-private-email-server/
https://www.geekwire.com/2015/why-you-shouldnt-try-to-host-your-own-email/
https://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/how-to-set-up-your-own-email-server/
https://www.linux.com/topic/networking/how-build-email-server-ubuntu-linux/
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3184925/how-to-have-a-linux-home-server-on-the-cheap.html
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-to-run-your-own-e-mail-server-with-your-own-domain-part-1/
https://jeffreifman.com/how-to-install-your-own-private-e-mail-server-in-the-amazon-cloud-aws/
https://www.iredmail.org/
https://docs.iredmail.org/why.build.your.own.mail.server.html
..'1: The Norw. original news story:
https://www.tek.no/nyheter/nyhet/i/Qml8dx/get-overfoerte-kundene-sine-til-epostselskap-som-naa-vil-ha-betalt-fo?utm_source=vgfront_content=row-30
..the above in googlish:
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Get transferred its customers to email companies that will now have
paid. - Reprehensible, says customer 
Customers who previously used Getmail were transferred to Wemail this
summer. Now Wemail requires customers to subscribe to keep their email
address.
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Stein Jarle Olsen
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Niklas Plikk
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This summer, Get (now Telia) notified customers who have used the email
service Getmail that their email service would be discontinued and that
they would be transferred to the external service Wemail. The problem?
A couple of weeks later, Wemail was informed that in a relatively short
time they would demand a subscription fee of 19 kroner a month for
customers to keep their emails.
Wemail, which is run by the company Recurrent AS, explains on its own
website that they are a Norwegian mail service without advertisements,
and that they do not use data about customers for commercial purposes.
Therefore, they are dependent on revenue from customers. Wemail
apparently has no other customers than the previous Get customers.
Several readers have contacted and reacted strongly to the fact that
they now have to pay for a service that was previously included.
"Directly reprehensible," says one. "Incredibly poor customer service",
says another, who is also upset that Wemail gave customers "very short"
deadlines and in practice threatened that the email archive would be
deleted and the ema
