Subj : Re: Rolling your own email on linux in 2026
To   : Bryn Hopkins
From : Tolik Vdovichev
Date : Thu Sep 10 2026 07:28 pm

Hello Bryn,

 BH> I set up a small postfix/sendmail instance years back in 2015, but I
 BH> remember it being a small pain. There a trustworthy guide in 2026 or
 BH> useful tips to know about rolling your own email beyond what's in the man
 BH> pages?
I'm running my own mail server, postfix+dovecot+postgres.
Let's encrypt for SSL.

I did this in pre-AI epoch, so used Postfix official documentation:
https://www.postfix.org/documentation.html

and a nice article at Digital Ocean, that looks simiar to this one:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-postfix-email-server-with-dovecot-dynamic-maildirs-and-lmtp

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