
Re: Used to run my own mail server 6 or 7 years ago, but stopped
IMHO, running your own mail server (and believing you are safer that way) is asking for headaches. There are so many more threats these days that it takes a team of people working 24/7 to keep highly vulnerable systems (like mail servers) safe.
I sort of agree...and sort of don't :)
I agree because it seems like you will get attacked. My own little private mail server is under continuous low-grade attack. Random spam, probes on SMTP and POP3 ports. Occasional probes on the web interface.
I disagree because my server just shrugs it all off. The only time I had a problem was when I changed the rejection logic to quietly accept random spam. It didn't bother the email server but did chew through 90GB of my 100GB monthly allowance in two weeks. So now I reject everything at RCPT and that's that. My server is VPOP3 running on Windows 7 on a FitPC2.