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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by lqet on Sunday May 03, 2020 @09:02AM (#23058734)
+1 for self-hosting. Doing that for nearly 10 years now, by far the most difficult part is setting up a mail server, but after that you can put on your resume that you know how to configure Postfix (which I am quite certain is one of the most difficult Linux server applications to configure). Backups, webmail, file storage, calendar etc. are quite easy to set up.
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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by ZWoz on Sunday May 03, 2020 @09:25AM (#23058836)
Postfix has flexible configuration system with many knobs. I would say though, that official documentation is nice and detailed. Last time I checked Debian defaults looked pretty good, so you don't need fiddle too much to get reasonably useful and secure setup.
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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by ori_b on Sunday May 03, 2020 @10:30AM (#23059205)
OpenSMTPd is much easier to configure, IMO.
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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by swiley on Monday May 04, 2020 @05:15AM (#23065936)
It’s still a pin but yes, way easier than postfix. You can completely and fairly easily understand how to write the confine yourself.
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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by justsomedude11 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @12:20PM (#23059949)
Postfix is actually quite easy to configure. Exim is what you're thinking of.
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Re:What would you do if you lost your Google account? by BenjiWiebe on Sunday May 03, 2020 @08:13PM (#23063011)
Try configuring Asterisk.
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