If you are creating a new #mailserver and you need to migrate mailbox files to mail directories. How would you do it?
We are using #dovecot on both machines and want to try to migrate to #mailcow.
Another small victory today.
A salesperson had almost convinced a client to move their email from 365 to Google because "they hold all the cards now". I stepped in and suggested they keep their email on servers that they control instead. The salesperson almost mocked me, treating me like a "nerd" who doesn't understand how the world works.
I was happy to be a nerd, if necessary, to explain the pros and cons of the solution to the client.
The result? The salesperson was politely thanked and "sent home", and I'm now evaluating some details of the new mail server, which, by the client's choice, will be based on OpenBSD.
Because people need explanations, not brochures.
Personally I would have gone with #Mailcow. Much easier to setup and administer. As much as I love #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD I sure as hell wouldn't recommend it for an SME.
Unless your goal is lock-in. Vendor lock-in. And in this case that vendor is you. Because let's face it, even in IT, OpenBSD is quite niche and FreeBSD is already niche enough.
#OwnYourData #OpenBSD #RunBSD
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Okay, so a small update on my #OwnMailServer:
I've just managed to send and receive my first mail! And I can connect to my new inbox via the webmail interface, and also via Thunderbird (imap).
Apart from running the standard dockerized version of #MailCow, I had to do two things:
Serve the MailCow web interface to the internet (ports 80 and 443). Because I'm hosting various websites on those ports, I used Nginx to forward the MailCow traffic to the relevant port on a local machine.
Okay, so a small update on my #OwnMailServer:
I've just managed to send and receive my first mail! And I can connect to my new inbox via the webmail interface, and also via Thunderbird (imap).
Apart from running the standard dockerized version of #MailCow, I had to do two things:
Serve the MailCow web interface to the internet (ports 80 and 443). Because I'm hosting various websites on those ports, I used Nginx to forward the MailCow traffic to the relevant port on a local machine.