Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for personal use?

Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for pe... by X86BSD on Saturday August 13, 2016 @04:34PM (#12282989)

Yeah I'll have to disagree here. I beat my head against this horribly documented MTA just trying to get virtual users to work with a relay host. I gave up after three days of slitting my wrists trying to get it to work. It's horribly documented, getting help out of the obsd folks is like getting blood from a turnip, but if it works for you great! But I would never agree it's easier to configure or has better documentation than postfix.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for pe... by MustardTiger on Saturday August 13, 2016 @09:23PM (#12283886)

I'm genuinely curious here since opensmtpd has been by far the easiest to configure MTA I've ever seen. What problem(s) did you have? Virtual users through a relay host is literally one simple line:

    accept for domain "example.com" virtual <users> relay via relay.example.com

I don't see how anyone could conclude that is more difficult than postfix.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for pe... by X86BSD on Sunday August 14, 2016 @01:22AM (#12284371)

And have you tried it? Because when I tried it it did not work as documented.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for pe... by MustardTiger on Sunday August 14, 2016 @08:10AM (#12285289)

Yes, it works as expected. Again, what problem(s) did you have? Vague "its hard" replaced with an even more vague "it didn't work" comes off as trolling rather than a legit problem.

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