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  • PlexSheep@feddit.detoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldExternal email server vs port forwarding/vpn
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    5 months ago

    Hosting email with mailcow dockerized worked pretty good on my netcup vps, but before you go into hosting email ask yourself a few questions:

    • Will you use your selfhosted mail for important things? (Banking, official correspondence and so on)
    • Can you promise a near 100% uptime? Otherwise, some email might not reach you.
    • How important is the Mail you send? Some (stupid) Blocklists generally block all IP ranges that are sold out by vps companies and other kinds of IAAS.
    • If you register any accounts with your selfhosted mail, can you guarantee yourself that your email account is secure? Don’t underestimate what an attacker can do with a compromised Mail account.

    I personally ended up scrapping my email server eventually. Nowadays I pay a company to do the mail hosting, you just need to set some DNS records and they do everything else. Personally, I’m with proton, but there are many good alternatives.




  • I second this. Wireguard, openvpn, various docker containers offering these, I’ve been through with them.

    The regular openvpn or wireguard tools are good if you only need a dumb von, but if you want some kind of special routing or overlay network, tailscale has just been so easy.

    I selfhost it completely too, using a headscale control server.