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guardian452 wrote: Welp... my ISP is still out :/ the only other option here is twc/comcast so it's not like I have a choice.

Put another couple beans in the jar

robespierre wrote: there are schemes called "forward secrecy" (or, redundantly, "perfect forward secrecy") that are designed to prevent that type of prospective ciphertext storage. the idea is that a conversation takes place in or near real-time, and after each step, the secret that authenticates the previous chain of steps is published. so once the recipient has received and opened a message, and used that step's secret to verify it, the protocol makes future authentication of the message impossible.

Yes, but that still doesn't deal with the insecure endpoint problem, and as long as people use $FREE mail services that don't care about such things, there's going to be lots of insecure endpoints.

I don't recommend it when Dovecot or UW IMAP Server will meet your needs, but as a reference point I run Cyrus on my own server, supporting a few small domains. Powerful, flexible, and at times frustratingly arcane - and ludicrous overkill for what I'm doing with it. But then I worked for a company selling MTAs, mailstores, and webmail front ends designed to scale up to installations with 100,000+ users, so my expectations are pretty ludicrous too.

If you want to run your own mail server, I'd recommend using a real or virtual server in a proper data center.

• A VM with root access costs US$10-15/month
• Home-based power and connectivity outages don't impact service
• Less likely to wind up on somebody's DNSBL (IP address blocklist) thanks to the botnet-du-jour
• Hosting company will often include secondary DNS and MX

This looks interesting for a small operation :

http://www.xmailserver.org/

Can never tell until you get in there and start rooting around, tho ...

Do yourself a favor and get an SDF account. You even get free usenet access when you register.

What about qmail? I worked for InMotion Hosting once upon a time ( terrible host by the way ) they used Exim/Courier, which is a nightmare, so when I got my free employee VPS I excised that out for qmail/opensmtpd and I never had any issues, except cPanel bitching at me because I literally had to go in and rewrite some of their crap perl scripts to disable mail server management.

TeamBlackFox wrote: What about qmail?

Funny you should mention that ... I was just looking for it on opencsw but no luck Build your own should be easy but I'm not up to speed on the svcadmin thing

surrealdeal wrote: Do yourself a favor and get an SDF account. You even get free usenet access when you register.

Price is right but PPTP VPN ? Eeeeuw

If you need web based mail services check out:

mail.ru
unseen.is

hamei wrote: This looks interesting for a small operation :

http://www.xmailserver.org/

Can never tell until you get in there and start rooting around, tho ...

We used that here at the office for years until we jumped ship to Office365. Xmail actually works really well, takes a few minutes to setup and has a very little bloat. The support and community are shit and as far as I can tell development has stopped, but the documentation works just fine for 95% of the trouble you may have. You better like editing text files

VenomousPinecone wrote: Xmail actually works really well, takes a few minutes to setup and has a very little bloat. The support and community are shit and as far as I can tell development has stopped, but the documentation works just fine for 95% of the trouble you may have.

Really ? cool, thanks !

You better like editing text files

At least I don't have to configure it through iTunes

edit: the ignorant loser dipshit hard-coded gcc all through xmail. Given that there's a Solaris makefile I had hopes but no such joy. Is this a pandemic or something ?

I'm so tired of these morons