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Setting up a mail server is a complex, but ultimately rewarding process. If you’ve got your own domain, you can have a practically unlimited number of email addresses with little fuss, giving a degree of flexibility you wont get elsewhere.
Take a look at our tutorials to get your mail server set up and secured.
Setting up an email server can be complex - this guide aims to make things more straightforward. Part one focuses on the reasons for setting up your own email server, and outlines the steps we'll be covering in the rest of the guide.
Whether you're just setting up your server, or testing your configuration, Telnet is a great tool to send emails through a terminal. This guide will explain how to do it.
This article will explain a few commonly triggered SpamAssassin filters, and how you can avoid them.
Protect your email domain from spoofing by adding an SPF record. This guide will show you how it's done.
DKIM is a useful feature designed to prevent email spoofing, protecting your email domain. Here's how you can set it up on your email server.
Once you have OpenDKIM set up, you'll want to connect it to your MTA to sign outgoing emails. Here's how you can use it with Postfix.
Testing your email server is vital if you want to avoid blacklists, and ensure your emails reach an inbox. Here's how to do it.
Postfix is a mail transfer agent, used to both send and receive emails on your server. This guide will go through a basic Postfix setup.
Setting up an email server can be a complicated, but rewarding task. Here's why you should give it a go.
Matching your sending domain with your rDNS is important to ensure your messages are accepted by the receiving mail server. It's often overlooked, but this guide shows you how it's done.
Forwarding the correct ports is a requirement to hosting a web server. This article explains which ports to forward, and how to test them.
SMTP port 25 is often blocked by ISPs, preventing the use of a locally hosted email server. Here are a few ways to get around this.
DNS records route traffic to your web server. They're a vital part of your mail server setup. This guide will explain how to set them up.
DMARC is another feature that helps to protect your mail server. Here's how you can set it up.
Giving your emails a recognisable sender name is an important step to ensuring your recipient reads your email. This article will show you how to set up your sender name.
Adding an SSL certificate to your Postfix configuration encrypts emails sent from your server. This guide takes you through the process.
