[clue-tech] Mail server questions

[chris fedde]

qpopper is very easy to setup and run.  a bit insecure by itself but
adding some firewall rules can help.  Most email clients can be
configured to either fetch mail or leave mail on server for either pop
or imap.    Alternately you can configure the remote server to queue
mail for you then run fetchmail to forward everything to your local
MTA.

Personaly I'm never going to run a personal MTA again.  Keeping up
with spam has become too much of a full time job.   Google carries my
family domain at this point.


On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Matt Gushee <matt at gushee.net> wrote:
> So, I'm preparing to revive my long-dormant Web site(s), which also means my
> e-mail server. I'm moving from a shared hosting service to a virtual private
> server, which of course means I will be responsible for all my own e-mail
> functionality. Yes, I know, I could just use GMail. Don't wanna do it. I
> have my reasons.
>
> Anyway, I have the following questions:
>
>  1) I fairly often need to access e-mail when I'm out and about, but
>    still like to use Thunderbird (or some other desktop program) at
>    home as my primary client. So what I'm thinking about doing is:
>
>    * Run a POP3 server.
>    * Use a Webmail application, probably RoundCube, for remote
>      access, but set it to not delete messages on the server.
>    * Keep my current desktop setup, with Thunderbird downloading
>      and deleting everything.
>
>    Has anybody done it this way? Did it work well for you? Any pitfalls
>    I should know about?
>
>    (BTW, I am also considering IMAP, but I'm leery of leaving mail on
>     the server because I am starting with a low-priced service plan
>     that doesn't provide a huge amount of disk space).
>
>  2) I'm planning to use Postfix for SMTP, but am not sure about
>    POP/IMAP. Recommendations?
>
>  3) And of course a spam question: a significant amount of the spam I
>    get is spoofing one of my two domain names. Now, I think it should
>    be pretty easy to detect those, since I know my own mail server's
>    IP address, and nothing originating from any other host should
>    claim to be from my domain. Any reason I shouldn't send the spoofed
>    messages straight to /dev/null?
>
>  4) Finally, how should I go about testing my setup before going live? I
>    just want to have a reasonable degree of certainty that my e-mail
>    (especially incoming) won't be interrupted when I switch over the
>    DNS/MX records.
>
> Thanks for any input!
>
> --
> Matt Gushee
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