Yes, First was with qmail,  and now is with OpenSMTPD, four domains. All
my servers are OpenBSD.


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*Óscar Rubén Cuéllar Valcárcel*
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El 09/09/18 a las 11:34, Ken M escribió:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 08:49:26AM +0000, Tim Jones wrote:
>> Ken,
>>
>> Putting all the OpenBSD evangelists to one side, there are two things to say.
>>
>> First, like me, you might use OpenBSD for many things. And like me, you 
>> might come to the conclusion that using OpenBSD for mail is not one of those 
>> things.Personally I prefer to use a decent Linux stack for my mail, but I 
>> know saying that is probably amounts to heresy round here, so I all I will 
>> say is "do your homework, test various options, see what works for you".
>>
> I am completely on the page of using the right tool for the job. No argument
> there.
>
>> But the second (far more important) point I want to make is please *THINK 
>> TWICE* if "running your own mail server" is something you are planning to do 
>> on your home internet connection.
>>
>> Why ?
>>
>>  Well, you have all the spammers of this world to thank for the xSP 
>> community taking "more rigorous" approaches to spam filtering.
>>
>> I can tell you now that running a mailserver on your home internet 
>> connection is only likely to lead to many head-scratching "why is Joe not 
>> receiving my emails ?" moments.
>>
>> If you are going to run your own personal mailserver, then either: (a) Rent 
>> a box somewhere else;or
>> (b) Do it at home, but on a business internet connection where you can jump 
>> through all the anti-spam hoops without problems (static IP, reverse DNS 
>> etc. etc. etc. .... all of which will be difficult or impossible to convince 
>> your ISP to implement on your typical dollar a month residential connection).
>>
> I would never run something like this from my house. So no worries there. On a
> VPS or something at minimum off site.
>
> Ken
>

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