From: SquatnDog <bbs@bbs.copland.systems>
To: bbs@bbs.copland.systems
Subject: Re: Email self-hosting solution
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:08:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <577bb558bd31de4020a8fa7b35e0b947@bbs.copland.systems> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <643b0e931f655c20d72fd079547bc748@bbs.copland.systems>
JTURGEON pointed out, SMTP is not secure unless everyone is using PGP. But there's another layer to this. If you host your own email, you should understand that all spam and attacks against your mail domain are spending the hardware resources of your server to process. My approach to this is to sign-up (and $pay) for a smart-host relay from a vendor like Mailroute or Appriver. Tell them you are self-hosting and want to use their security fitlers via a smart-host relay. This will put the burden of the resource requirements on them as they apply a large security filter stack to all mail inbound or outbound. As a bonus, these vendors are now responsible for ensuring your domain is not blacklisted. Another bonus is they likely have a mail queue that pools when your server is offline.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-22 12:19 Email self-hosting solution cyberarboretum
2026-08-22 19:27 ` SquatnDog
2026-08-22 20:26 ` cyberarboretum
2026-08-23 1:56 ` joshuablais
2026-08-23 2:38 ` mattken
2026-09-01 5:22 ` jturgeon
2026-09-01 18:08 ` SquatnDog [this message]
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