On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:01:13PM -0600, Austin Hook wrote: > Have run my own mail server for maybe 20 years of OpenBSD, and apart from > getting my ISP to give me a static IP and a correct reverse DNS entry, and > a couple of run ins with a few filters that dumb ISPs run, it's worked > fine all this time.
This is very close to my own experience over the years. The part about getting a static IP address with correct reverse lookup is truly essential. You *will* need to actually monitor what happens and keep your systems in trim (*patch your shit* for example), and of course over the same 20+ years we've seen developments in mail that aren't easily ignored such as SPF+DKIM+DMARC but the motivation for running your own mail service most likely includes some genuine interest in the topic for its own sake so you will need to take those in stride. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
