[clue] Self hosting email in 2015

[Mike Nolte]

Yeah, sure.  And Zimbra does a *lot* compared to "postfix and
courier-imap", not to mention it's 1,000 times more user-friendly.
Hardware is cheap, and we've been using it to compensate for our
deficiencies as programmers and administrators for as long as I've been
computer dorking.

My server doesn't actually host LDAP; it ties into FreeIPA, but that
requires the zimbra-ldap package.  spamassassin is essential, and it's part
of zimbra-mta.  In reality, I'm sure that everyone does what I did, and
they install the whole .rpm (or .deb).  If you actually extract the
contents of that package, though, it contains the individual packages,
which can likely be installed individually, to get only the features that
"the friend" wants.  I wrote that knowing full-well that the OP would
install the whole thing, and they won't be painstakingly poring over the
package installation scripts to figure out exactly what needs to be run and
how.

I don't know that it's a home mail server, but I sure don't care if it
doesn't scream.  It's Yaverot's problem now, and this cider isn't going to
drink itself.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 6:40 PM, adam bultman <adamb at glaven.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 09/30/2015 03:33 PM, Mike Nolte wrote:
> > It seems like everyone uses Zimbra, because it's super-easy and does
> > everything.  That means it takes a lot more horsepower than, say,
> > Postfix.  Mine has webmail, LDAP, multiple domains, and most things
> > enabled, and it needs 2GB RAM.  The downside to easy is that it can
> > seem magical sometimes, but the upside is that we don't have to care.
>
> You can do a *lot* with pretty minimal hardware, though.  At work, we
> had 20,000 inboxes hosted on a single 2 CPU blade, with something like
> 2GB of RAM.  And it worked very, very well.  I think it hosted webmail
> too, ran spamassassin, etc - but didn't host it's own LDAP directory.
>
> And if one's home mail server doesn't scream, who cares, right?
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