Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider
Grant Taylor
gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net
Mon Dec 4 22:52:57 UTC 2017
I'm not personally really worried about this. - I was just calling out
that it is a difference. For others that do care. ;-)
On 12/04/2017 03:42 PM, Andy Brezinsky wrote:
> If you're really worried about this, separate your mail storage from the
> mail transport. Run an inbound and outbound smarthost on your $5 VPS to
> queue up mail and deliver it back to your house where your long term
> mail is stored. This gives you the benefit of the static IP at the VPS
> along with the security and cheap storage of having the mail storage in
> house.
I agree that the VPS Smart Host is a good solution. However that puts
you in a position that you are now administering multiple mail servers.
I'd suggest that people new to mail servers stick with a single $5 ~ $10
/ month VPS that does all of the roles. - Then graduate to the
multiple server solution.
> If you're worried about the short amount of time that messages are
> queued up on your VPS before making it to your house then you really
> shouldn't be communicating over email.
I think it depends what part of the communications you're worried about.
S/MIME and PGP tend to cover a lot of the (non-metadata) concern.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
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