E-Mail Blog

A series of articles dedicated to setting up, using and maintaining e-mail systems with SMTP, IMAP and related software.

The example configurations make use of software from the Open Source community.

Warning: These articles and how-to instructions do not take the approach of minimum required discussion but they attempt to present a more elaborate and total view of the subjects. Some are rather long in order to cover the possible combinations of involved subjects.

E-Mail Infrastructure Security

May 7, 2024, 3:14 pm

By its nature any e-mail infrastructure is exposed to the real bad Internet. It is open so that messages can be received from unknown senders that want to communicate with its users. In addition, the original protocols developed decades ago had no sense of protecting messages and users,. They did no...

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E-Mail message deliverability

May 7, 2024, 3:13 pm

E-Mail message deliverability is simply the ability to deliver messages to the user, preferably, in the user's Inbox and not in any other folder that may not be directly visible.

Ability to deliver has two aspects:

  1. the correct functioning of the sending e-mail system such that the messages sen...

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Fail2Ban: Protecting your E-Mail servers

February 28, 2024, 9:04 am

The universal use of e-mail communications means that malicious actors have a plethora of systems and services to direct their attacks to. Both at the server level and the client side.

E-mail was originally an open protocol and to a large extend it still is. A significant portion of messages are...

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