[Liverpool] Email in a box

[Neil Bothwick]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:05:05 +0100, jn1057 via Liverpool wrote:

> Hi everyone!  Does anyone know if the email in a box system is any
> good?  From what I can see it looks like it is deliberately basic and
> as far as possible self repairing.

Is the the system that Click reviewed. That was basically a Pi with some
outdated software - they slated it!

> For a small number of accounts it might be useful. For those of the
> livlug who host their own email there is comment that home hosting is
> almost impossible because isps automatically blacklist ip addresses
> from home servers. Can this be easily tackled? 

Many ISPs and companies blacklist mails sent directly from IP addresses
that are listed as for home use. The way round it is to route outgoing
mail through a smarterhost, like your ISP's mail server. You can do this
on a per-domain basis with Postfix. I did it that way for a while but the
list of domains got rather long so I made it the default.

If your main concern is privacy, you may be better off renting a VPS is a
less Orwellian country and running your own mail server on that.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If you think that there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody.
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