Re:Helm: Personal Email Server
by nothrabannosir on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:36AM
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> Also, the "on-the-go" issue is DL speed: from your device to your server. How long your server takes to send the mail is mostly irrelevant - instantaneous transmission should be done by phone.
Not commenting on the rest: you download incoming mail from your server, i.e. your home uplink. If someone sends you a photo or zip file, that’s the bottle neck.
Not to mention syncing email with the brain dead protocol that is IMAP…
> You still give access to your data to a company, which controls software updates and the EC2 proxy (in this case).
Because you read all code changes every time you `pkg upgrade` or `dpkg dist-update`.
> Many home ISPs have shitty upload connectivity, so your email won't work that well on the go.
Is that really an issue? I probably use <100kB personnal email per day anyway. Even in the US, 100kB/day upload is not unheard of.
Also, the "on-the-go" issue is DL speed: from your device to your server. How long your server takes to send the mail is mostly irrelevant - instantaneous transmission should be done by phone.
> Internet and power outages mean you won't send or receive any email.
More comments around here about sending servers that MUST retry, and fail only after a few days.
> You lose the knowledge email providers get from scale, including ever-evolving spam filters, and a guaranteed clean outgoing IP.
That could be a real issue, but the ever-evolving filters at my ISP clearly can't spot (nor stop) the spam I receive anyway.
The outgoing IP shouldn't be a problem if you've registered it in your DNS, and it matches the SMTP or whatever subdomain.