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Gud • today at 11:35 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

It is not difficult to keep a mail server online.

FreeBSD(ZFS+jails old but gold) + postfix + dovecot.

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BSDobelix • today at 11:42 AM

Ha nearly the same setup here, FreeBSD/ZFS/opensmtp/dovecot/rspamd

And yes uptime (with short outages(updates etc)) is not that important for a mail-server, since the sender re-transfers in intervals (mine is 5min the 8 then 15 then 60 then 180 then something up to 2days)

So the uptime for the service is 100% (maybe 99.999) over the last 8 years.

newsclues • today at 11:46 AM

Mail servers are easy, getting the other mail servers (Microsoft,Gmail,etc) to play nice with yours is harder.

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