My Very Own Email

Posted about 1 year ago

I spent some time today and setup email on the new server. Much credit given to this how-to. It is now that I’m starting to fully enjoy my Linode. I basically have Postfix as the MTA and Dovecot performing IMAP/IMAPS and SASL. I am hitting the ceiling by now with memory usage, but I may be looking at taking Apache out of the picture in favor of something a bit smaller. Either Lighttpd or Nginx, leaning towards Nginx, if for no other reason than to just try something new.

Before all that I want to polish out my email setup by adding virus scanning solution which I haven’t decided on yet. I also will probably add postgrey but I don’t know anything about its resource usage yet, or even how it operates so that is another topic to research.

I also need to reconfigure the firewall so I can accept pings while resisting DoS attacks and the like. I actually took the time for once to write a SysV startup script for iptables. If I get some time to revise it and clean it up perhaps I’ll make it publicly available in case anyone wants to look at it.

Well I have plenty to do and as usual will pretend there is a chance of me going to bed at a good time tonight!

Sean