On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 02:26:20PM +0200, Cl??ment Lassieur wrote: > Thanks for working on this, I like the idea, and I have always wanted to > do something similar.
Yes, I am surprised so few people here run their own :) > I don't understand how your server can run phases 1 to 3, since Postfix > isn't packaged. I guess you are running a foreign distro, which means > you are still pretty far from you goal. On the mail servers I normally run Debian with some Guix on top. I have had mail servers since 1996 or so - it was one incentive to try Linux at the time. My Linux first server (hosted in Bangladesh) was running sendmail over uucp(!). I came to smtp late :) I think it is not so much work to replicate my setup in Guix. For me it will be new to work with GuixSD images and configuring shepherd etc. But I am sure we can get some help there. > My own mail server runs GuixSD with OpenSMTPD, which works very well (I > even have one client!). Is there an important feature OpenSMTPD is > missing? If so, we should package Postfix as a first step. > > Same question with Courier-Imap: why don't you use Dovecot? Its Scheme > configuration is very nice, and it seems much more popular than > Courier-Imap anyway. Both great suggestions. Let me read up on them. I have been using the others because of an early start. Postfix has been very good to me. One reason to make this list is to invite ideas... > Also, I would push for a Jabber service rather than an IRC service, > because Jabber (XMPP) is decentralized. Absolutely! Japper is on. Git service is another. Pj.
