[Cialug] Email server

[Andrew Denner]

On possibility on the sending email side would be to use the free tier of
Amazon SES (https://aws.amazon.com/ses/) as a smarthost for your local mail
server. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/postfix.html
It should be free for most sane home use cases.

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 7:23 AM, <khamil8686 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Someone mentioned using gsuite. I am dragging my feet a bit since I have
> had my gmail for over ten years. I see google has set up end-to-end
> encryption on gsuite, and that’s $5/mo. So, I could keep my email and have
> it be encrypted as well and the data wouldn’t be owned by google so they
> couldn’t sell it even if they can get the encryption key. Then I could just
> set up a mail server for fun and learning how to do it. Sorry, I forgot who
> mentioned gsuite. Is that what you meant?
>
> Thank you!
>
> From: Nicolai
> Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2017 10:37 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Email server
>
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 06:11:15AM +0000, Jared Brees wrote:
>
> > Now that I have Mediacom with a Dynamic IP, I point
> > www.relatedtotechnology.com<http://www.relatedtotechnology.comto
> > geek-rtt.ddns.net.
>
> > So, when pinging my
> > www.relatedtotechnology.com<http://www.relatedtotechnology.com>, it
> > auto-resolves to geek-rtt.ddns.net (as it's just a CNAME), but pinging
> > the IP address gives you 127.2.3.1-client.mchsi.com.
>
> > Not sure if the auto-resolve on CL was a result of there actually being
> > a PTR record, or some other phenomenon.
>
> The behavior you describe is a result of the implementation of your ping
> program giving helpful information, not your ISP.  On OpenBSD, for
> example, ping doesn't consult the DNS when doing e.g. "ping 192.0.2.8".
>
> Similar for traceroute.  You have flags like -n and -A which control
> informational/convenience functions for DNS and ASN, respectively.
>
> Nicolai
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