email privacy

[Volker Wysk]

Am Dienstag, 10. April 2018, 11:19:16 CEST schrieb Mathias Homann:
> 3. Install a mail transfer agent (postfix), and make sure you configure 
> it properly. It has to allow sending from EXTERNAL addresses ONLY with 
> proper authentification, or your server will be a spam relay. Later 
> options for this: spam filtering, mail antivirus, etc.

When you need one, postfix is probably the best choice. However, I'm doing without one. I let the MUAs (Kmail and K-9 on Android in my case) directly access the SMPT account at my mail/web provider, for sending mail.

> 4. Install a mail delivery agent. This is the piece of software that 
> receives and stores local email, and that all your clients (tablet, 
> phone, kmail, thunderbird, or whatever else) connect to to get at your 
> mailbox.

This would be the private mail server in question. I strongly recommend dovecot.

> 5. Install and configure fetchmail. This is the one piece that will 
> FETCH your mail, via POP3, from the mailserver(s) that you are using for 
> your regular email, and DELETE the mails on those servers. It then just 
> feeds them into the local mail system, which will store them loclly 
> inside the MDA from step 4 so your tablet / kmail can get at them.

I've had used fetchmail as well. But I've switched to getmail, because fetchmail didn't work so well... Getmail is unproblematic, and it can integrate a spam filter (as well as other filters).

> 6. GET A SSL CERTIFICATE for your server. The sertificate needs to be 
> for the hostname that you get in step 1. My personal suggestion for this 
> would be using letsencrypt.org. This will involve setting up and running 
> a web server, at least when you get (and when you frenew) the 
> certificate.

Hmm..  I'm doing without one.


Cheers
Volker