[Swlug] Email Server Setup.

[James R. Haigh (+ML.LUG subaddress)]

At Z+0000=2024-10-04Fri20:28:30, Morgan Green via Swlug sent:
> Hi,
> Does anyone any good guides or documentation on how to setup an email server. Since I'm trying get a postfix server to communicate with the outside world. But I'm not sure what ports to open?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Morgan Green
> 
> Sent from Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>

Hi Morgan, I am looking to do exactly the same and I'm currently chipping-away at this Ars Technica guide:-
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-to-run-your-own-e-mail-server-with-your-own-domain-part-1/ 

    I found it from the Notqmail website (at https://notqmail.org/about/ ).  Notqmail is an alternative to Postfix with a much smaller codebase and emphasis on security, but the Ars Technica guide they recommend for beginners is actually about Postfix (and Dovecot, Sieve, etc.), so I am just going with that for now, and may later decide to switch-out Postfix for Notqmail.

    Also, hi everyone, this is my first email to this LUG.  I have been using GNU+Linux since early 2008, but several months ago, because my local LUG is not very Linuxy anymore, I decided to join the mailing lists of all adjacent LUGs that I was not already member to. :-)

Kind regards,
James R. Haigh.
-- 
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Sent from Debian with Claws Mail, using email subaddressing as an alternative to error-prone heuristical spam filtering.
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