Hello all,
I am after a bit of advice here. I have been planning to host my own mail server inside a FreeBSD 10 jail for a while now. The original purpose was to learn about mail servers and secondly to have more control over privacy.
I was talking to a friend a few days ago who strongly advised me NOT to host my own mail server as the setup and security risk is really not worth the time.
I was also told that because I have a single static IP from my ISP that my IP will be automatically blacklisted as spam. Is that true?
Could someone with experience provide me some advice/guidance on pros and cons on running such a service?
My little business has three users and around six unique email addresses. We use FreeBSD 10 ZFS, with our database and web server in jails, and we use /mail/OpenSMTPD as our MTA.
Thank you in advance,
Fred
I am after a bit of advice here. I have been planning to host my own mail server inside a FreeBSD 10 jail for a while now. The original purpose was to learn about mail servers and secondly to have more control over privacy.
I was talking to a friend a few days ago who strongly advised me NOT to host my own mail server as the setup and security risk is really not worth the time.
I was also told that because I have a single static IP from my ISP that my IP will be automatically blacklisted as spam. Is that true?
Could someone with experience provide me some advice/guidance on pros and cons on running such a service?
My little business has three users and around six unique email addresses. We use FreeBSD 10 ZFS, with our database and web server in jails, and we use /mail/OpenSMTPD as our MTA.
Thank you in advance,
Fred