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

[paul at paulfurley.com]

Good progress! :D
  

  
  

 Highly recommend Let's Encrypt - it's from a non-profit called   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.
  

  
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 :)
  

  
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
  

  
PGP: you can set that up later, it runs in your email client so it's totally separate from the mailserver.
  

  

  

  
  
Paul
  
  
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> On Jul 18, 2017 at 7:43 pm,  <Alex J Lennon via Liverpool (mailto:liverpool at mailman.lug.org.uk)>  wrote:
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>  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 -- Liverpool mailing list Liverpool at mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/liverpool  
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