Email server on centos?

[Kobrastachka]

I was looking at setting up my own email server on my centos server. I was thinking about using Iredmail, Has anyone here used it before? What are your other recommendations for mail servers? 

[MatthewEnderle]

I never used iredmail. I wrote a Built Tutorial on my website for postfix and mercury mail on debian.

http://mlestudios.net/tutorials/mailserver/

[Guest]

Used to have a CentOS setup similar to yours.

• (Obviously) you'll need a static IP or use something like NoIP
• Depending on how much mail you will store consider a decent RAID setup. 
• Depending on how reliable your machine and connection is, especially with sending outgoing mail you can have some issues if you try to said too much.

[MatthewEnderle]

But I will say that IredMail looks really interesting.

[Kobrastachka]

1 minute ago, TechEric said:

Used to have a CentOS setup similar to yours.

• (Obviously) you'll need a static IP or use something like NoIP
• Depending on how much mail you will store consider a decent RAID setup. 
• Depending on how reliable your machine and connection is, especially with sending outgoing mail you can have some issues if you try to said too much.

I normally use Fishdns for my dns, Its really easy to use compared to noip

[F4S4K4N]

On 2/2/2016 at 10:35 AM, Kobrastachka said:

I normally use Fishdns for my dns, Its really easy to use compared to noip

Most spam filters will block anything that is not a static IP, because most bot spam comes from dynamic ranges.

 

IRedMail is pretty good for general purpose stuff, but once you dig deep into it you realize nothing is better than a custom Dovecot + Postfix + Amavis setup. IRedMail actually is a "Dovecot + Postfix + Amavis" setup with a bunch of fancy custom authentication scripts and user interfaces.

[jasonvp]

7 hours ago, F4S4K4N said:

but once you dig deep into it you realize nothing is better than a custom Dovecot + Postfix + Amavis setup.

No offense, but that's a pretty bold statement to be making of MTAs in general.  Dovecot is an excellent way to retrieve mail (I use it extensively), so I agree with that part.  But postfix?  Trash.  Always has been, always will be.

 

If your MTA doesn't start with "send" and end with "mail", it belongs in /dev/null.  There's a reason it's still around after all these many years: it works.

[F4S4K4N]

3 hours ago, jasonvp said:

No offense, but that's a pretty bold statement to be making of MTAs in general.  Dovecot is an excellent way to retrieve mail (I use it extensively), so I agree with that part.  But postfix?  Trash.  Always has been, always will be.

 

If your MTA doesn't start with "send" and end with "mail", it belongs in /dev/null.  There's a reason it's still around after all these many years: it works.

Yea, and some people still swear by exim... Everyone has an opinion.

 

Postfix works, and it can be easily setup in a secure manner. Sure you don't get the fine granularity of control that sendmail gives you and it doesn't always scale the best. However, In small deployments it works fine, which is what we're talking about here. IRedMail also works fine too, but you loose more control that way as you're being abstracted into a web interface. IRedMail uses postfix, because they aren't trying to be a multi-thousand user mail server.

 

So i'm not going to disagree with you on the fact that sendmail is a better tool, but we're talking about someone who probably has little experience in this area and postfix can do the job while not being terribly hard to wrap you're head around.

[Salty]

I found this tutorial pretty straightforward for me.

http://www.krizna.com/centos/setup-mail-server-centos-7/

 

All of it is done through the command line.