[clue] Self hosting email in 2015

[David L. Willson]

I'm fond of it. I've got one server running 7.x and another running 8.x. I don't have any commercial servers out any more. 

Backups? Oh, yeah... I should do that more than annually. Basically, I shut the machine down and rsync the vmdk's to another box. 

I am a bad SA. 

-- 
David L. Willson 
Teacher, Engineer, Evangelist 
RHCE+Satellite CCAH Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 Ubuntu_CP SUSE_CLA 
Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267) 
http://sofree.us 

This is a good time for a r3VOLution. 

----- Original Message -----

> 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.
> 

> > --
> 
> > David L. Willson
> 
> > Teacher, Engineer, Evangelist
> 
> > RHCE+Satellite CCAH Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 Ubuntu_CP SUSE_CLA
> 
> > Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)
> 
> > http://sofree.us
> 

> > 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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