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
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> On Jul 18, 2017 at 7:43 pm, (mailto:liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk)> wrote:
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> 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
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