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If you own your own domain, self hosting an email server can seem like an attractive option. However, the initial setup can be quite complex – a fully fledged mail server requires several software components to work together.
There are guides available which attempt to outline these steps, however, many of these are rather lacking. Issues range from being poorly written, having steps out of order to using software commands before the software is even installed, and failing to explain many of the steps undertaken.
This page outlines the required steps, providing links to our full guides to to help you out along the way.
- Why create an email server?
- Open ports on your router/configure ports on your web host
- Add DNS and MX records for your IP address
- Set up SPF on your email server
- Set up DKIM on your email server
- Set up DMARC on your email server
- Install and configure Postfix
- Setting up OpenDKIM with Postfix
- Set up user mailboxes