<html><body><div id="edo-message">Good progress! :D</div><div id="edo-message"><br></div><div id="edo-message"><div></div>Highly recommend Let's Encrypt - it's from a non-profit called <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Internet Security Research Group supported/started by the internet giants and others. Most importantly they simplified everything with automation and making it free- you typically so some config the first time then do cetificate renewal in a cronjob.</span></div><div id="edo-message"><br></div><div id="edo-message"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">You'll need to do SSL/TLS on your SMTP so other mailservers can connect to you encrypted before delivering your mail. I imagine you'll want to do the same for your IMAP service too :)</span></div><div id="edo-message"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div id="edo-message"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I believe you can get a certificate for the web service at eg https://mail.example.com then use the same cert for smtp://mail.example.com and imap://mail.example.com</span></div><div id="edo-message"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div id="edo-message"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">PGP: you can set that up later, it runs in your email client so it's totally separate from the mailserver.</span></div><div id="edo-message"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div id="edo-message"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div id="edo-meta"></div><div id="edo-original"><div>Paul<br><br><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:1ex 0 0 0;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:0.5ex;"><div>On Jul 18, 2017 at 7:43 pm, <<a href="mailto:liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk">Alex J Lennon via Liverpool</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div><pre>
On 18/07/2017 19:03, jn1057 via Liverpool wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> Just to update anyone who is interested, I'm still in the process of
> learning how to host my own email server. Yes there are so many
> options and choices to make.
>
> So far, I've used namecheap.com to buy my Web domain.
>
> Found a reasonable price on:
>
> therivermerseyside.com
>
> next, find a suitable email forwarding service, aaips.net seems to
> offer this for £1.20 /month
>
> For those of livlug who have already done this and are laughing at my
> plodding progress, are ssl certificates and pgp keys possible to get
> and install after setting up the server? Or do they have to be tackled
> during the set up?
>
I haven't tried them yet but Paul Furley was recently tweeting about
LetsEncrypt (https://letsencrypt.org) who are apparently giving away
certs for free...
Cheers,
Alex
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