So as you may have noticed if you looked at the about page (or been snooping through the DNS records for this site), that I now have email under this domain.

I spent all of yesterday after work setting up an email server and some time today setting up Roundcube webmail.

Why Roundcube? because it was a simple compose file to deploy and didn’t need external database management. It also have a nice simple user interface and allows for my upstream proxy server to handle all the HTTPS.

I used docker-email-server to setup the backend as it was a simple deployment with the ability to configure it if needed.

The hardest part of all of this was setting up SPF/DKIM/DMARC so the big email servers wouldn’t instantly reject my email before the spam folder.

Oh, and getting the VPS IP off of the singular blacklist it was on as I’ve had this domain and IP for at least 3-4 years now.

It works surprisingly well considering it’s being forwarded from the VPS to my server like most of the other services I host.

Anyways, eMail isn’t as bad to selfhost anymore as it used to be in the olden days. I even have filters and my GMail set to forward to my domain so I can manage it all from the domain.

If you want to eMail me for any reason, use public@[this domain] and I will get it.

Thanks for reading :3