Just curious how many of you use openbsd to run your own personal email server? Do you find it a hassle to manage in any way?
I know openbsd is perfectly fine for a mail server, don't get me wrong the question is more about is it worth it to do yourself. Specifically I will probably be doing it through a guest on vultr. Back story my family all has email addresses through the domain I have. Which basically will forward to a gmail account. The kids accounts don't really forward anywhere, they are place holders I guess. But they are getting old enough to use their own accounts for things and not just through the school which sets them up with google accounts to use through their chromebook. So my wife really doesn't like the idea of setting them loose on their own email accounts, and I don't necessarily disagree with her, but I disagree on the way to do it. In a gmail point of view all I can think of is shared passwords for for the kids. I don't like that because first of all they could change it, second of all monitoring their email means literally reading their email. My wife and I have different views on privacy as well. I was thinking I could run my own email server to give them accounts there, and at the same time instead of reading their email be able to more specifically block certain senders, but also to scan the email for troubling words. In my mind that is things like suicide, kill, etc. So I guess the end question, is for protecting the email of minors is running my own email server, when I have never done it before on any OS, worth it over some other solution. And yes I am very open to other suggestions for a solution, even if it is something I have to pay for, to avoid sharing passwords or grotesque privacy infringement of literally reading all their emails. Welcome to differences of opinion as well. Thank you. Ken
