[Liverpool] ***UNCHECKED*** Setting up a private email server. .. part 36!

[Alex J Lennon]

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