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submitted 2 years ago by werefreeatlast@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have to ask this. Is there a service where I could bring my own FQN like Notgoogle.com and then have them handle emails for me? But with a twist.. I want notgoogle.com to send and receive emails via that outside entity, but I want to send the emails from a self hosted server that maybe has mailcow or similar and I want that same server to receive the emails from the outside company. Ideally the outside company is basically just a relay from my IP to the outside world and vise versa. The outside company would basically hold the emails until my server checked and downloaded them. any advice on this. Hopefully with a useful step by step guide from somewhere in the webs?

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[–] smb@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

have you read it? i considered buying it a while ago but was unsure, quite high price for an ebook that you cannot glimpse into (like with real books at the store some time ago) i thought. Also i learned a "bit" about most of its topics myself long ago.

tricky yes, but very learnable too.

[–] tvcvt@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I get pretty much anything Michael Lucas writes. The information is always great and his writing style is fun to read.

Important to note: it’s not a step-by-step guide to copy and paste and have a mail server running. It’s all about understand all the stuff that goes into it.

[–] smb@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

thanks for your opinion.

i already have my own mailservers running for roughly two decades now so copy-paste is not what i am looking for.

i ordered that email book and mastering dnssec from him now as i am a bit curious about some topics within the email book and want to dive into dnssec now cz i also host dns for my domains and improvement is always good ;) last time i started with dnssec i got distracted and that was it.

[–] tvcvt@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In that case, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. I’ve been reading a little bit before I go to bed and learning a lot that I glossed over when I set up my own mail server years ago. He and Alan Jude wrote some ZFS books as well that I keep coming back to and picking up new tricks each time.

[–] smb@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

thanks i'll start reading soon ;-)

zfs is interesting, but i still don't 'need' it. however its on my tolearn list maybe just after dnssec