[clue] Self hosting email in 2015
Quentin Hartman
qhartman at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 16:24:04 MDT 2015
I used Zimbra years ago and it was quite nice. I liked that it was all
standard stuff just glued together. Is their community offering still
decent? I remember that it couldn't do hot backups when I was using it and
ended up writing a script to approximate that (hey! It's still in their
wiki! https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Open_Source_Edition_Backup_Procedure)
and they were making some questionable business choices regarding open
source, but then I changed jobs and haven't looked at it since.
QH
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:18 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu>
wrote:
> I like Zimbra, but it has a lot of the things you don't care about, like a
> web-interface.
>
> If I just wanted something basic... I guess I might go back to UW-IMAP and
> SquirrelMail, but really, I haven't used anything but Zimbra in many years.
>
> I'd be happy to add your friend's domain to my basement host for a short
> time, as long as he's not spamming, and realizes that ... well, it's a
> basement host, with all that that entails.
>
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> This is a good time for a r3VOLution.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > 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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