I have run my own mail server now for 20+ years. its is runnig postfix , with spamassain. the users have imaps, and roundcube www gui.

It had been running fine, and have been updated HW / OS a lot of time over the years, now its runnig on rocky O/S

    • Im_old@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      2 years ago

      The ultimate boss fight is hosting your email server AND making your family use it

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        Would never want to do it. I don’t wanna be responsible for the outage and them needing an important email.

      • cooopsspace@infosec.pubEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Actually to be fair, mine works fine and always has. The final boss is making Hotmail/live/Microsoft actually accept your email despite you jumping through all the hoops to have perfect spam score.

    • Konlanx@feddit.deEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      I have my own mailserver just for me and it wasn’t that complicated to be honest. I set it up with Mailcow in Docker in under a day. So far it has been stable with regular backups and updates through Lighthouse.

      Maintenance comes down to 5 minutes every three months because somehow Let’s Encrypt and Mailcow don’t like each other and I have to renew the certificate manually.

    • ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.comEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      IMHO, as someone running his own mail server, the real final boss is LDAP and implementing SSO on all your selfhosted goodies. Bonus points if you then use it to login to other services that support OAuth 2.0.