Brutkey

hexaheximal
@hexaheximal@mstdn.social

In case it wasn't already obvious, yes, I plan on running a tiny intranet mail server.

And mox is the clear winner for which smtpd to use.

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@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org

@hexaheximal@mstdn.social have been running my own mail server for 15 years or so, I never heard of mox but have found opensmtpd is pretty great, never had any problems and have only had to change the config once (when they did a big rewrite of how all the config rules were processed).

hexaheximal
@hexaheximal@mstdn.social

@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org The initial plan was to use OpenSMTPD, but it failed spectacularly at the use case: https://mstdn.social/@hexaheximal/115052146389075944

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@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org

@hexaheximal@mstdn.social the openbsd version has privelidge seperation for a reason, its only got the root process to open the ports, then _smtpd user for the other stuff. AFAIK the portable (linux) version works the same. Its done that way for a reason, security is most important for any mail server. Why would you not want to do that? Only good reason I can think of is you don't have root access to that machine.