Re: OT: "domain-level" email hosting services?
On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 08:43:02PM -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > I've always just run my own (Linux) email server locally in my home > office, but my current Internet service is soon going to be going away > and I was wondering if it would make sense to move to some sort of > mail-hosting company as part of reorganizing my network setup. > > So on the theory that there are likely to be other users of advanced > email-server functionality among the Mutt folks, I thought I would ask > here to see if anyone has recommendations for mail hosting services that > target neither "consumer" nor "enterprise" clients, but somewhere in the > middle (and which play nicely with Mutt and other IMAP clients)? > > For example, a service that allows unlimited "aliases" for a set of > domains, pointing to a handful of "user mailboxes" which actually > receive email? > > Or alternatively some service that queues incoming Internet mail for my > domains and then allows the queued email to be fetched by my local mail > server for local delivery (thus avoiding having an open SMTP port on my > home connection to the Internet)? > > (I currently host a few domains and deliver mail to ~5 users via hundreds > of aliases) > > Thanks for any ideas I should consider. > > Nathan A cheap virtual private server running postfix, dovecot, amavis, spamassassin or rspamd, postfix-policyd-spf-perl, OpenDKIM, and OpenDMARC will do the trick if you don't mind the hassle of setting everything up. :-) cheers, raf
Re: OT: "domain-level" email hosting services?
Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > I've always just run my own (Linux) email server locally in my home > office, but my current Internet service is soon going to be going away > and I was wondering if it would make sense to move to some sort of > mail-hosting company as part of reorganizing my network setup. It could be worth it. I've run my own mailservers for the last couple of decades, and it keeps becoming more of a pain in the ass as the 900-lb gorillas of the email world impose arbitrary new restrictions in the name of anti-spam. > here to see if anyone has recommendations for mail hosting services that > target neither "consumer" nor "enterprise" clients, but somewhere in the > middle (and which play nicely with Mutt and other IMAP clients)? Yes, there are a number out there. The specific ones I'd recommend are way out of date, but look for ones running "vmailmgr" by Bruce Guenter. They tend to be technically savvy and give you full control over the way email is handled for the domain -- it's not just a catchall POP/IMAP account. > For example, a service that allows unlimited "aliases" for a set of > domains, pointing to a handful of "user mailboxes" which actually > receive email? This is easy with vmailmgr. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon GPL'ed software available at: http://pyropus.ca/software/ ---
Re: OT: "domain-level" email hosting services?
On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 08:43:02PM -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: I've always just run my own (Linux) email server locally in my home office, but my current Internet service is soon going to be going away and I was wondering if it would make sense to move to some sort of mail-hosting company as part of reorganizing my network setup. So on the theory that there are likely to be other users of advanced email-server functionality among the Mutt folks, I thought I would ask here to see if anyone has recommendations for mail hosting services that target neither "consumer" nor "enterprise" clients, but somewhere in the middle (and which play nicely with Mutt and other IMAP clients)? For example, a service that allows unlimited "aliases" for a set of domains, pointing to a handful of "user mailboxes" which actually receive email? Or alternatively some service that queues incoming Internet mail for my domains and then allows the queued email to be fetched by my local mail server for local delivery (thus avoiding having an open SMTP port on my home connection to the Internet)? (I currently host a few domains and deliver mail to ~5 users via hundreds of aliases) Thanks for any ideas I should consider. Take advantage of hosting sales (such as Hostgator currently is running) and set up a mail system on a shared host. Cheap and reliable; a wealth of features, but easy to set up. Then use getmail to download mail to your local machine where you run Mutt. RLH -- How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? - Deuteronomy 32:30
OT: "domain-level" email hosting services?
I've always just run my own (Linux) email server locally in my home office, but my current Internet service is soon going to be going away and I was wondering if it would make sense to move to some sort of mail-hosting company as part of reorganizing my network setup. So on the theory that there are likely to be other users of advanced email-server functionality among the Mutt folks, I thought I would ask here to see if anyone has recommendations for mail hosting services that target neither "consumer" nor "enterprise" clients, but somewhere in the middle (and which play nicely with Mutt and other IMAP clients)? For example, a service that allows unlimited "aliases" for a set of domains, pointing to a handful of "user mailboxes" which actually receive email? Or alternatively some service that queues incoming Internet mail for my domains and then allows the queued email to be fetched by my local mail server for local delivery (thus avoiding having an open SMTP port on my home connection to the Internet)? (I currently host a few domains and deliver mail to ~5 users via hundreds of aliases) Thanks for any ideas I should consider. Nathan
