Re: [Liverpool] ***UNCHECKED*** Email in a box
On 11/07/17 15:14, jn1057 via Liverpool wrote: Just as I thought, the livlug group are quick to respond and provide very useful advice! Many thanks. Again though Neil, I think you sent two emails relating to my query but one of them was missing the body of the email! We think that is due to my email client on my Samsung phone. Email in a box seems to be a very basic generic system intended to be installed onto a server Farm rented server. Doing that seems reduce the problems of being blacklisted due to being on a home ip address. Email in a box when installed, hijacks the entire pc and it seems locks it down so it is the only service on that pc. Email in a box own docs suggests that there are other more sophisticated projects that could be tried, iRedMail being one of them. As someone entirely new to this idea of "re decentralisation" of Internet services I'm intrigued, bewildered yet keen to learn how to implement my own email hosting system Speaking as somebody who has run his own email, web. and other servers for many, many years, as I'm sure is true of many from LivLig and the DoES community, I can't think of a more fun way to get started than using a co-located Raspberry Pi for your email server: e.g. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-colocation Cheers, Alex -- Liverpool mailing list Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/liverpool
[Liverpool] Email in a box
Just as I thought, the livlug group are quick to respond and provide very useful advice! Many thanks. Again though Neil, I think you sent two emails relating to my query but one of them was missing the body of the email! We think that is due to my email client on my Samsung phone. Email in a box seems to be a very basic generic system intended to be installed onto a server Farm rented server. Doing that seems reduce the problems of being blacklisted due to being on a home ip address. Email in a box when installed, hijacks the entire pc and it seems locks it down so it is the only service on that pc. Email in a box own docs suggests that there are other more sophisticated projects that could be tried, iRedMail being one of them. As someone entirely new to this idea of "re decentralisation" of Internet services I'm intrigued, bewildered yet keen to learn how to implement my own email hosting system-- Liverpool mailing list Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/liverpool
Re: [Liverpool] Email in a box
I'm interested in this too, just a bit wary about self-configuring things - how do I fix it if it goes wrong? > On 11 Jul 2017, at 11:05, jn1057 via Liverpool > wrote: > > Hi everyone! Does anyone know if the email in a box system is any good? > From what I can see it looks like it is deliberately basic and as far as > possible self repairing. > > For a small number of accounts it might be useful. For those of the livlug > who host their own email there is comment that home hosting is almost > impossible because isps automatically blacklist ip addresses from home > servers. Can this be easily tackled? I think Neil does home hosting successfully. I believe it helps if you're on a more specialist ISP (andrews & arnold, Zen etc). I think the trick is to be on an IP in a clean IP block - eg you don't want spammy "neighbours". > > Your comments and advice would be much welcomed, thanks > -- > Liverpool mailing list > Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/liverpool -- Liverpool mailing list Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/liverpool
Re: [Liverpool] Email in a box
On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:05:05 +0100, jn1057 via Liverpool wrote: > Hi everyone! Does anyone know if the email in a box system is any > good? From what I can see it looks like it is deliberately basic and > as far as possible self repairing. Is the the system that Click reviewed. That was basically a Pi with some outdated software - they slated it! > For a small number of accounts it might be useful. For those of the > livlug who host their own email there is comment that home hosting is > almost impossible because isps automatically blacklist ip addresses > from home servers. Can this be easily tackled? Many ISPs and companies blacklist mails sent directly from IP addresses that are listed as for home use. The way round it is to route outgoing mail through a smarterhost, like your ISP's mail server. You can do this on a per-domain basis with Postfix. I did it that way for a while but the list of domains got rather long so I made it the default. If your main concern is privacy, you may be better off renting a VPS is a less Orwellian country and running your own mail server on that. -- Neil Bothwick If you think that there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody. pgp8aPGGEQh6Q.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Liverpool mailing list Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/liverpool
[Liverpool] Email in a box
Hi everyone! Does anyone know if the email in a box system is any good? From what I can see it looks like it is deliberately basic and as far as possible self repairing. For a small number of accounts it might be useful. For those of the livlug who host their own email there is comment that home hosting is almost impossible because isps automatically blacklist ip addresses from home servers. Can this be easily tackled? Your comments and advice would be much welcomed, thanks-- Liverpool mailing list Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/liverpool
