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title: Mailserver
author: nek0
tags: english, programming
description: My own mailserver
---

Some time ago a few friends and I rented a root server, each of us maintaining one or more services on
it. Since I gathered some experience in the field my part is to maintain the mailserver. This way we
have a decentralized mail service at our hand, that is not so easily spied upon.

For running the mailservice I chose the combination of Postfix and Dovecot with SASL managed by
Dovecot. To configure everything I really recommend the
[Dovecot wiki](http://wiki2.dovecot.org/StartSeite) as well as the
[Postfix documentation](http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html). When installing from Debian
repositories you get a simple working configuration out of the box.

If you want to learn to do this by yourself, just install these services and tinker with them. Thats
the best approach I can recommend, though maybe not the simplest.
