A friend of mine wants to set up a mail server on a VPS and asked me what
he needs to do beyond the obvious setting up postfix and dovecot. Is there
a good summary somewhere?
I'm thinking of things like:
- choose a provider that has decent mail behavior, e.g., not Digital Ocean
- make sure the
On 9 Jul 2023 18:39:22 -0400, John Levine via mailop
wrote:
>= start slow and look at any bounces
This implies to me that this will be a broadcast server rather than mailboxes
for individuals and businesses. If so, there are some paragraphs that might
need to be added, especially about list hyg
It appears that Michael Rathbun via mailop said:
>On 9 Jul 2023 18:39:22 -0400, John Levine via mailop
>wrote:
>
>>= start slow and look at any bounces
>
>This implies to me that this will be a broadcast server rather than mailboxes
>for individuals and businesses. If so, there are some paragrap
On 9 Jul 2023 22:07:38 -0400, John Levine via mailop
wrote:
>In fact it's for people but you never know what some people will do.
>Don't start by letting your chatty user send "here's my new address"
>to all 10,000 people in his address book.
Ah. Somebody doing that on my server would get an au
