No.3997
Hello,
I'm new to /tech/ and /prog/. In fact, I'm a complete noob to it all. However, in this world we live in, I'm finding security to be increasingly important.
I don't know how far I'd like to go, but the idea of de-Googling myself sounds attractive. I feel like a big step would be to completely stop using gmail. And with that, I've been looking into creating/hosting my own email server for personal use. I've looked up some basic steps, and my understanding is I need to buy a domain (something that is relatively cheap), and find a dedicated hosting server. There are some available, but they're expensive. I have a raspberry pi at my disposal, and I've heard of people setting one up as a dedicated server.
I understand that this will not be a simple endeavor. Setting this up is going to take a lot of research and work. But I feel like, if I really put my mind to it, I can do it.
Does anyone have any experience doing something like this? Anything you'd tell someone who's interested in doing it themselves?
Thanks, all.
No.3998
>Setting this up is going to take a lot of research and work. Yeah, copy-pasting 3 lines into terminal, using a solution like
https://modoboa.org/en/ (there are many others, like mail-in-a-box)
There are not many ways of properly configuring a mail server and this problem is generally considered to be solved.
You'll have bigger problem exposing your raspberry pi to the internet, as your provider most likely doesn't give you a real IP address. You'll need either that, or your own VPN on a hosting, that would route incoming connections back to your home. Both would cost money, so I'd recommend getting a VPS for that, they are as cheap as 5$/month. You'll have to trust that hosting company, though.
No.4000
>>3998Thank you for sharing modoboa. That's helpful to me.
I'll also look into a VPS. What do you mean by exposing my rasberry pi to the internet?
No.4001
Start with OpenBSD, very well documented. Even better, start with something that has made it workable, turn-key:
https://github.com/vedetta-com/caesonia No.4055
>>3998>as your provider most likely doesn't give you a real IP addressOr gives you a dynamic address with reverse dns pointing to issp, not your domain, so every email you send will be rejected as spam by major providers.
