It’s been entirely too long since I put real effort into my email server. It was time to work on it again. By work on, I mean replace. I used a lot of my previous work from /post/2016/2016-10-15-email-server-writeup, but obviously things have changed since then. And I decided to add some things too; like using certbot & fail2ban.
Some basics (getting it installed!) I’m still a big FreeBSD user. When I want to do something right, rather than fast; it’s my destination.
I offered to write up my email server’s configuration for a friend. We’d gotten into a discussion about the horrors involved in managing all the moving parts for his email setup, and questions about other products, etc, etc. I didn’t think my latest experience with Postfix & Dovecot was all that bad, hence my offer. So, this is my write-up of how I got Postfix, Dovecot, Rspamd, ClamAV all linked up and backed by a PostgreSQL database.
The ‘big’ migration I don’t have a big VMware installation. A pair of host servers with shared iSCSI storage solves our needs. It is pretty affordable, compared to big EMC SANs, or the newer complex setups from Nutanix, or their non-VMware compatible competitors.
My little environment runs Essentials Plus, which gives me a bit of access to some HA features, but not some of the more advanced stuff found in something amazing like Enterprise, or Enterprise Plus.
So, all the FreeBSD experience in the world counts for very little when you run into that game server that just simply won’t run on anything but Windows. A while back, I followed some directions to get Windows Server 2016 on bhyve on FreeBSD-CURRENT (11). I found it very clunky to deal with - as one of the things the scripts (at least at the time) did was to install Windows Server 2016 Core.
I wanted a place to document things I do. It seems like it would be useful to refer back to them for redoing a setup, and maybe improving on a setup. I figured the first post should be one related to how I got all of this running.
So I started looking at systems for making this easier. A blog seems like a system that would help with that, and I started looking around.