5 days to go

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

5 days to go!
Secure e-mail stack with OpenSMTPD, Rspamd, Dovecot – on FreeBSD.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/03/08/make-your-own-email-server-freebsd-opensmptd-rspamd-dovecot-part1/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

[nux@fosstodon.org]

@stefano 5 days to go until what?

Re Zimbra, I think it lives on as Carbonio developed by your own paesani at Zextras. There's commercial support available, too.

https://zextras.com/carbonio-community-edition

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@Nux It's the EuroBSDConAdvent calendar, so 5 days to EuroBSDCon 🙂
Zimbra is still Open Source, they just don't provide the builds anymore - but you can build it yourself.
Carbonio is another software - a Zimbra fork.

[nux@fosstodon.org]

@stefano Oh, how lovely, have a nice time there! Hope to catch up with the slides and recordings, would love to come in person at some point.

Re Zimbra, I think it lost a lot of credibility when exchanging so many hands. My gut prefers Zextras atm.

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@Nux I agree, all those ownership changes didn't look good at all. More, they seem more oriented towards providing software and services to "the big cloud players" so they're not focused on self-hosting anymore. And it's a shame.
About Zextras - I've very good reasons to avoid dealing with them. This could be one of the future horror stories on my blog...

[drheho@mastodon.social]

@stefano what about fail2ban for your mailserver setup to prevent constant mailserver requests with different passwords?

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@drheho This article just covers the basics - of course, the server should be hardened, both at firewall level (limiting the requests, connections, etc.) and using solutions like fail2ban. But I didn't want to go too deep.

[peteorrall@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stefano Yes!!