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MAIL-IN-A-BOX

People often say that email is hard. At one stage it was considered too hard to be the subject of a standard four-page tutorial. By the time you’ve explained Postfix, Dovecot, chromalisting, MX records, DMARC and DKIM there’s not really much room left to describe everything else. And there’s a lot of everything else. But that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily ‘hard’, just complex. A good elucidation of this can be found at https://bit.ly/lxf284mail.

One ‘turnkey’ offering is called (), which doesn’t use containers. Instead, it’s meant to be installed on a single-purpose machine whose only job is to be an email server. Unlike lots of things featured in this magazine, is meant to

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