Uh, just tried to install Stalwart, the Rust mailserver suite. It’s nice. But you have to switch to nixos-unstable to get some important features as of now. And then I can’t find any resources on how to set it up. Meaning there are no sane defaults floating around on the internet and it’s really a chore to learn the internals and come up with a proper config. Maybe the nix-mailserver is a better choice for now.
Wow. Thanks. Guess the “your previous linux knowledge doesn’t really apply to NixOS” is correct. I already found the lengthy lists of stuff to read up on… I’ll add this to my “read later” list :-D
Stalwart sounds nice, too. Since I’m just setting everything up, maybe I can try both mailservers. I’ve now had 2 people recommend the simple nixos-mailserver.
Thank you, that is good advice. Unfortunately I get 4 pages of forks of the nixpkgs repository and like 6 results from people who use nix to spin up the docker containers for the respective software… But it’s something. And all I need is one reasonable result. I’ll keep looking.
Thank you. That one already appeared in my search results. Seems like a traditional postfix/dovecot/rspamd setup.
I know. People always say you shouldn’t run your own mailserver. I have. For like 10 years or so and I’m fine. Well… I’m more than fine. I really like the idea that my mailbox is stored on an encrypted volume at home and not somewhere in the cloud. Also it comes without any noticeable capacity limit, I got a large harddisk in my NAS/server. It’s a bit annoying, though. I forward some email. And some of that goes to a gmail.com account of a friend. It’s important first contact and admin mail, so the spam filter isn’t super strict. And I got greylisted by gmail for doing that. Once a few spam mails slip through, google will stop talking to you. So I currently can’t send mail to gmail users. I have a few free email accounts I use as a relay so I myself can still send mails. But it’s annoying. It’s part of the reason why I now want to redo my mailserver and have an updated rspamd and stuff. I get why people say you should let other people provide email service to you, but I don’t see a proper reason except for it’s annoying and frustrating and odds are against you. (Additionally it is a bit complicated to set up reverse pointers and MX records.)
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
If you want Linux on your phone. But Android is probably easier to use. Something like LineageOS or /e/ works pretty well. I’m not sure what kind of phone to recommend for that.