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Usually you are supposed to add a year to older articles :)

Curious if you looked into other mail server options? I mean Postfix (not Postgres) easily handles the load of a single user, but it is still rather hard to configure and modify.

I recently started to work with Haraka and even thought its ment for high traffic use cases i wont ever look back to Postfix (not Postgres).



OpenSMTPD is by far the easiest to configure, and has very secure default settings. It works very good for a single user server.


Wow. I must have really been abused (likely) by other mail servers to consider Postfix easy then.


Given my first real Postfix experience was a scaleable forwarding service that is supposed to support a variation of configs without breaking the config file.

Postfix is super easy, and well documented for normal use cases.


Me too. Sendmail and his friends did unspeakable things to me.


s/Postgres/Postfix/ ??

In any case you should ask the author, as they are currently active on another discussion where they linked their article in a comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16238501#16238845

>perlgod: I've spent years tweaking my mail server setup (Postfix, Dovecot, RSPAMD, LDAP...) and did a full writeup a few months ago. I've used other guides online but found most of the rest lacking on details


Oh ha, i figured it must be you i just saw the comment before.

And yes, damn it. Fixed




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