[clue] Self hosting email in 2015

[Quentin Hartman]

Budget?

If you want to do BSD, it seems like running postfix and courier-imap on
some COTS hardware would be a straightforward answer. There are a number of
gui tools that can help manage them, but my setups are simple enough that I
just do it by hand. It's powerful enough to handle real volumes of mail on
reasonable hardware.

There are also a number of appliances that can play this role. I really
like Synology for this sort of thing, though I've never used their mail
server piece: https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/all_in_one_server

Really though, doing mail well is tricky enough now that it probably pays
to use a hosted service. If your goal is really a "generally ignorable
system that just works", this is far and away the most cost effective route
to that goal. The economies of scale and concentration of expertise at a
provider just can't be beat. If there are other concerns of course that
calculus changes.

QH

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Yaverot <Yaverot at computermail.net> wrote:

> How possible is this?  I've been trying to help a friend who needs to
> replace the Mac server he set up in 2003 or so. (And is well unsupported
> now, with no upgrade path).
>
> Despite using multiple guides on the net, getting the software installed
> is a pain, the config files always seam to be somewhere else, and even
> after finally getting it setup, the server can only email to itself.
> Our most recent attempt was with iRedMail.
>
> So the time has come to asking you enthusiasts on which expert to pay to
> get us setup and once again have a generally ignorable system that just
> works.
>
> He's willing to try hosted email, as a temporary solution, pricing would
> be per domain not per user.  Actual volume of email I don't know at this
> time.  Local is required, the Denver-Boulder area.
>
> He needs to be able to add (or I assume remove) users/email addresses at
> will, with some type of GUI interface (web okay).
> He wants to add an additional domain or two.
> SSH access so that backup is an easy "ZFS send" command.  Which is a
> preference for FreeBSD over other options.  Although being set as a cron on
> the send side is preferred over a cron pull from the backup location.
> Webmail is unnecessary. IMAP is required.
> Having the mail server within its own VM making moving it in the future
> easier, is a plus.
>
> We already have a location with port 25 unblocked, that had been working
> fine for years until email providers started up-ing their security near the
> beginning of the year (and now quota limit warnings from a nearly-full
> drive).  He has control over the DNS records and can move the MX as needed.
>
> All the above, and I feel I'm missing something obvious.
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