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Building your own email server
There has been a lot of talk in the past year of pervasive surveillance and how email isn't really "yours" if you use GMail or something hosted. Truth be told it is relatively easy to stand up your own email server with all the perks (web mail, anti-virus, alias accounts, etc.) but it takes work to keep it all running. Install is only a couple hours but maintenance can be an everyday thing.
So why would you want to do this? I started this little adventure because I wanted to get emails from my various devices (Ubiquiti EdgeRouter, UniFi AP, etc.).
Where to start? I could list all the steps I went through, but I think it would be easier to just link the Ars Technica articles that walk through the process in more depth than I planned to. These article discuss the why and not just the how.
What will be installed?
Postfix, to send and receive e-mail
Dovecot, for IMAP
SpamAssassin, to keep spam out of your inbox
ClamAV, to filter out viruses
Sieve, to set up mail filters and rules
Roundcube, for webmail
PostgreSQL (or MySQL/MariaDB), for Roundcube's database
Nginx and PHP-FPM, to serve out Roundcube over the Web
It seems like a lot, but it isn't that much if you pay attention to the order.
Here is the Ars Technica walk-through:
How to run your own e-mail server with your own domain, part 1
Taking e-mail back, part 2: Arming your server with Postfix and Dovecot
Taking e-mail back, part 3: Fortifying your box against spammers
Taking e-mail back, part 4: The finale, with webmail & everything after
For the domain registrar I used NameCheap and I continue to use them for DNS instead of Amazon.
The host I originally set everything up on was a Droplet (VPS) from DigitalOcean.
What is left to do?
Setup email blacklist filters
SMS capability to text my phone on certain rules being met
As a parting thought remember that having all your email online and always accessible can be nice, but it can be a hazard as well. In case you are not familiar with the Telecommunications Act of 1986 basically any email left on a server for more than six months can be harvested by law enforcement without a warrant.