> If I were to start over my personal email setup (postfix with postscreen, dovecot with fts, opendkim, amavis/spamassassin), I sure would try it with this.
I am tempted to give that sort of thing a try, as successor to the franken-"postfix with postscreen, dovecot with fts, opendkim, amavis/spamassassin" contraption (actually Courier, not to mention LDAP, greylisting, a couple webmails, OCR, blacklists etc.) that we have been maintaining for two decades in service of friends & family.
But, for all its flaws, once put in production that setup on Debian packages Just Works - with upgrades and distribution version jumps handled almost flawlessly. I doubt that any of the new generation of integrated "mail things in a box" products that pop up since a couple of years have anywhere near that staying power. Does someone here know some that put long-term maintainability at the top of their priorities ? It seems to me that they all optimize for quick onboarding.
Same. There is a large vocal contingent who confidently declare in any online space that hosting your own email is impossible these days. And yet, those of us who have been for years are managing it just fine.
Yes, it takes some understanding of how things work. Mine has been chugging along for longer than I can actually remember with very little maintenance needed, aside from regular package upgrades. The only time I ever had an issue with mail providers rejecting mail from my domain was when my wife started sending out school newsletters containing links to a shady URL shortener, but that was fixed pretty easily.
I am tempted to give that sort of thing a try, as successor to the franken-"postfix with postscreen, dovecot with fts, opendkim, amavis/spamassassin" contraption (actually Courier, not to mention LDAP, greylisting, a couple webmails, OCR, blacklists etc.) that we have been maintaining for two decades in service of friends & family.
But, for all its flaws, once put in production that setup on Debian packages Just Works - with upgrades and distribution version jumps handled almost flawlessly. I doubt that any of the new generation of integrated "mail things in a box" products that pop up since a couple of years have anywhere near that staying power. Does someone here know some that put long-term maintainability at the top of their priorities ? It seems to me that they all optimize for quick onboarding.