I just set up my first ever email server and I’m proud of myself! 😊 Do you have any advice to avoid common problems? I mean something beginners often do that they shouldn’t. Thanks!

  • stevestevesteve@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As someone who also has 15+ years of experience in the field and is currently infosec management, it’s not that bad. Certainly not something I’d say “you’re in for a world of hurt” about like somebody just bought a bad timeshare.

    Especially if you’re not hosting production email for a company and you’re not leaving the server as an open relay, it isn’t very painful at all.

    You could also be less condescending, but as you said: your call. :)

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      Wasn’t intending to come off condescending. IMO exposing your internal network to the internet without a proper firewall is a risk, one I wouldn’t take unless I had a DMZ and a dedicated VLAN.

      In addition, you’d have to be on top of patch management. And when you do that, there’s a chance of something breaking too. My preference is not to have to muck around troubleshooting my own email server when a patch window goes bad since that’s what I deal with all day anyway. There will always be zero days, I’ll just pawn that off the the big boys.

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        1 year ago

        All of that is inherent in self hosting anything publicly accessible. You wouldn’t start off a reply to someone setting up openvpn with “you’re in for a world of hurt,” would you?