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Originally Posted by xylon
Ready to set up a new email service?
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I'd love to be
Before throwing myself in the deep end, I need to understand more as to what's involved behind the scenes. As TenFour said rightly …
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Originally Posted by TenFour
I think it is harder than you think to provide adequate security and functionality.
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And there is not like a "starting an email service for dummies" book out there
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Maybe the better approach would be to set up the email service you want first, and see how difficult and rewarding it is.
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Thanks for the sensible and gentle nudge to jump in
I think I would want a security hardened and stripped down BSD flavoured OS. Which means I would need as a first step to learn about BSD, security hardening, and stripping down an OS to the bare minimum needed for the limited POP3 service, right?