let’s do postfix again – Page 2

Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 5: Relaying from the local network

When running your own SMTP the real spam challenge is not to avoid getting targeted by spammers – it is is to avoid getting used by spammers. Mind…

Post date November 1, 2015
Tags email, let's do postfix again, postfix, relay

Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 4: Virtual domains

To reiterate what I said in the first post in our Postfix series, a virtual setup is one in which email accounts are independent of system accounts. We…

Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 3: Opening up to the outside

I promised that in this third part of the series we would finally get to make our SMTP server accessible from the outside, gettting a bit closer to…

Post date October 22, 2015
Tags email, let's do postfix again, postfix

Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 2: Address manipulation

In the last post in my Postfix series we went through the basics of configuring Postfix to accept mail. This second part will be a somewhat short addendum…

Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 1: A simple local mail receiving server

About a year ago I wrote a scathing comment about Ars Technica’s too-slow guide to self-hosted email. I wanted it now-now-now and not over the course of four…

Post date October 15, 2015
Tags email, let's do postfix again, postfix, smtp