* Re: [gentoo-user] mail server administration
@ 2016-11-10 11:59 99% ` Stroller
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From: Stroller @ 2016-11-10 11:59 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
> On 8 Nov 2016, at 11:12, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why are you even trying to do this yourself? I do this for a living and
> I can tell you it's a pain in the butt you don't want (*I* don't even
> want it, I shove mail services off onto other teams as fast as I can get
> them to take it…)
I want one or two IMAP accounts, and storage for several GB of mail.
I believe Gmail creates its own special mailboxes for things like "labels" and archived messages, which I dislike. And Google is fucking creepy about the amount of data it openly stores about you, anyway.
I want to receive mail from multiple domains, and route it into my IMAP boxes as I wish. I want to be able to create as many addresses at each domain as I like (e.g. gentoo-user@mydomain.com, amazon-orders@mydomain.com and so on).
My assumption would have been that any off-the-shelf mail provider is going to be less flexible than I desire, charge me extra for each domain I want to host, limit the number of addresses I can have, and require me to administer it all through a clunky or idiosyncratic web interface.
I understand that being a professional mail administrator for thousands or hundreds of thousands of mailboxes must be a headache, but I'd have thought that the job would be a lot easier if you're receiving mail for only one or a few people.
I would have though that accepting all DKIM-signed mail would enable me to receive messages from anyone with a Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo account. Then I would think allow all mail from other domains more than a year old - I wouldn't have thought it'd be too onerous for me to blacklist by domain spammers who meet that criteria. Maybe whitelisting the odd new domain would be necessary sometimes.
I appreciate mine may be a very naive view of the problems of mail hosting, but someone who wants to host mail for themselves is coming at things from a very different position than you are.
Stroller.
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