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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net

I #Selfhost my email server (that handles my 20+ domains) since almost 20 years now, currently on a cheap virtual machine running Linux, with 1 CPU core, 2G of RAM, 40G hard drive and unlimited network traffic which costs me less than €5/month.

Many people keep on telling me that running your own email server is more or less impossible. I simply don't listen to them.

I explained my setup in a blog series starting at jan.wildeboer.net/2022/08/Emai

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Momo @momo@social.linux.pizza

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I do this for 17 years now with now 5 domains and I can confirm: Beyond initial setup it is low maintenance. My biggest obstacle so far was getting my smtp host whitelisted by the Deutsche Telekom because although they will always send out mails to whereever your MX record points to, they rightout refuse accepting mails via SMTP from server IPs they don't have whitelisted. And their process to get whitelisted is questionable or shitty, depending on how hardass the sysadmin is, who takes your ticket. I was lucky the first time and now it's impossible to move the service to a new server ip because the person who took my ticket just was like "FU, bro!"
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