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Re: setting up email server

On 30/01/25 Tug Williams via linux said:

> So - Without a static ip, should I abandon the idea of running my own
> self-hosted email server?

Personally I host mine on a $5/month VPS from digitalocean. It's running Debian
12 and it works fine once SPF and DKIM were set up. I threw in a DMARC record
too, but I don't know what I'm doing there so I didn't do much. 

It's sufficient for sending and receiving. Sometimes in a script I might use
msmtp to go through that box, or maybe an app key with resend.com, but most of
the time, it's just postfix on a home box using my VPS as a relay. 

Running a mail server is a pain. But I tried paying for proton for a while, and
I got fed up after they had an outage and we decided to cut back on SAAS
subscriptions anyway. 

Mike

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