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Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider
From: amuse <nanog-amuse () foofus com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:23:58 -0800
I run my own mailserver... On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Grant Taylor via NANOG <nanog () nanog org> wrote:
On 12/04/2017 03:47 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:The concept is sound, but attempting to use your $5 VPS as your outbound mail relay is only going to end in pain and tears -- your VPS cannot have or build a good enough reputation to get reliable delivery to the big mail providers. You need to use an outbound mail relay that already has a good reputation, and that works hard to continue to maintain that reputation.My experience shows otherwise. I've been using a VPS as my primary mail server for > 2 years and have only been black listed once. Even that was a 12 hour automated listing because I sent one message to an address I had not used in 7 years, which had since been converted into a spam trap. I've also known others that use VPSs for this exact thing with considerable success. As for handling your inbound mail, use something like imapsync and theneffectively treat your IMAP provider as a POP3 provider instead, and download/delete the messages from their system as soon as they have been copied to your local system.Why? Having a different provider handle inbound will require them supporting your domain(s). Why not handle inbound email directly? The bad guys could tap into the stream of mail that flows through thatsystem, but they wouldn't be able to get into your archive of old mail without breaking into the box sitting in your house.S/MIME / PGP }:-) -- Grant. . . . unix || die
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- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider, (continued)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Grant Taylor via NANOG (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider valdis . kletnieks (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Brad Knowles (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider valdis . kletnieks (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Brad Knowles (Dec 04)
- RE: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Naslund, Steve (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Brad Knowles (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Andy Brezinsky (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Brad Knowles (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Grant Taylor via NANOG (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider amuse (Dec 05)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Robert Story (Dec 05)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Eric Kuhnke (Dec 05)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Grant Taylor via NANOG (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider John Levine (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Grant Taylor via NANOG (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider John Levine (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Stephen Satchell (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Michael S. Singh (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider valdis . kletnieks (Dec 04)
- Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider Grant Taylor via NANOG (Dec 04)