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What's the point of hosting a local server in this case, instead of just using a mail client?
maybe multiple mail clients are configured to connect to a local server in an office while that server is configured to outside world and also fetches each mail only once. changing of outisde world provider then does not make you reconfigure all mail clients, but only your central once.
I would say something similar if not exactly.
I'm just looking forward to de-googling my life before my kids are old enough to get Hooked on that shit themselves.
My basic idea is that maybe I can't or shouldn't host my own email server. But 15gig limits with constant nagging to pay up, so gmail is not the answer. That gets old quick. I want to just download the files into a central device that my wife and I have access to. But that has been thus far technically obfuscated. I'm not sending thousands of emails per day, just a family level of correspondence.
Ideally my wife and I would login thru our phones to send and receive emails from a common email space that only lives at home. The emails would be routed to the outside entity who would do the actual sending and receiving. I have some basic things that I'm starting to like...email aliases and having my own email domain.
I currently have my own domain on cloud flare but they don't proxy email servers. So here I be. I want for example to use e-mail like this:
Basic form: notgoogle.com
[email protected]
Stacked not google.com
Alias:
[email protected]
One time use or specific use:
[email protected]
I already tried serving my own server and all this was possible. But it was insecure in that you can easily go find my IP address and my real address. I don't want that, don't really mind if someone knows it, but I don't want to be spearphished. And so that's where my desires for a local server that not my wife and I can access and use like gmail but safely come from.
Rant: In general, oh God! Are we fucking retarded? I have a 2 TB disk, I got high speed internet... A rando in China can call my phone but somehow I can't get a rando to send me email? There's something wrong with that picture. Or maybe I should do exactly what I do with my phone number... Not use it at all unless it's family. You can spoof phone numbers, voices and emails. Maybe I should setup a Lemmy instance instead and just use this as a form of communication. The only problems being that my computer sometimes goes down due to power failure or IP change or some other reason, and nobody else would want to use my server...like the kids school or the DMV etc. Anyhoo...
If you mainly want to "hide" your IP, you can't. Look at the headers of any message. It'll still show the original source IP, which will be yours.
For the rest of the time I'd recommend getting a spam filtering service. Mimecast, ProofPoint, Barracuda, etc.
Messages sent to you go to the filter, which then forwards the message over to your mail server. Outbound you configure your server to use the filter as a smart host. These filters will also buffer messages if your mail server is offline. So if the server is down, the filter holds on to messages and retries delivery later when your server is back up (within reason).