This article will take you through the steps I followed to set up my Synology NAS, using Cloudflare to proxy my web traffic and secure in-transit connections to my server. For those who don’t know about Cloudflare, they are an American web-infrastructure and website-security company offering a variety of services Read more…
So if you read my introduction to this series, you will know that I have attempted to address the common issues with ‘self-hosting’ by adopting a hybrid approach, relying on two types of relay service: An SMTP (outgoing) relay – this is in many ways the most important of the Read more…
So in my last post I talked about why I’d decided to go down the route of partially self-hosting my email service. In this post I’ll start with setting up the basics. Unless your internet service provider (ISP) provides you with a static public IP address, the first thing most Read more…
So yes it’s 2020 – why would anyone wish to host their own mail server? You’re bound to have issues with sending mail given how much spam is out there nowadays. For a start how many residential/SME ISPs offer you the ability to have a static IP and PTR record? Read more…