[vox-tech] How many people run their own mail server?

Brian Lavender brian at greg.brie.com
Thu Oct 17 14:54:33 PDT 2013


On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 21:57 -0700, Bill Broadley wrote:
> On 10/15/2013 11:52 PM, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> > I am curious how many people run their own mail server these days?
> 
> Heh, add me to the list.  It's become SO much easier.  I used to have to 
> compile/configure many apps to get things working well.
> 
> Now a ubuntu install with:
> apt-get install dovecot-postfix
> 
> Gets you much of the way there.
> 
> So for me the ease of running a mail server has increased so quickly 
> that it's easily justified for me to continue running a mail server.
> 
> My favorite perks:
> * server side sieve for filtering, forwarding, and white listing

dumb question. How can you edit your server side filters from a client?

Now with this Exim setup, I have to edit the .forward file.

Are there "user agents" out there for editing server based mail filters?

brian





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