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Maarten Steenhagen
@msteenhagen@provo.lol  ·  activity timestamp last month

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.

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Maarten Steenhagen
@msteenhagen@provo.lol replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

Then, for the mail ports (25, 143, 587, 465, 993) I told my router to forward traffic directly to the local machine running the MailCow server. I'm only running one mail server after all, so no need for Nginx to route traffic there.

And then, I set up the DNS records for my domain in the way the MailCow manual recommends.

Now I'll have to do some testing, and checking how all this is logged, how to prevent/detect misuse, etc. But so far, this has been relatively easy.

#OwnMailServer

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A Flock of Beagles
@burnitdown@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@msteenhagen

[one month later]

*sweating, face dirty, clothes torn and burned somehow*

"the spam... why didn't anyone tell me about the spam..."

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