[Cialug] Email server

[khamil8686 at gmail.com]

  That looks pretty good. Would also get some amazon experience in the mean time. I don’t send/receive anywhere near that amount of email. This may be good just to try, mxroute is 2nd/1.5th on my list since its specifically for mail, and then digitalocean/chicagoVps. I will have to switch my domain name over to whatever vps I choose in the end, and go back to using a free subdomain DDNS one for my home server so I can do some things there. Keeping email specifically encrypted in the cloud on my mail server.  I think I will try setting up a free one with Amazon SES and see how that goes. If it isn’t reliable I will probably use paid ones like mxroute, then digitalocean/chicagoVps. Does Amazon SES provide filtering services or do I need to set up spamassassin/another spam filter?
  One thing I wondered, if I set up an authoritative nameserver on port 53 using my domain name, point dns towards there, and put reverse lookup for my home mail server, would emails be rejected? Purely an academic example that I was curious about. It would probably get emails rejected whenever the ip changed and the script to update the reverse entry hadn’t run yet.

Thanks again for all your suggestions everyone! 😊

From: Andrew Denner
Sent: Monday, May 1, 2017 10:01 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Email server

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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