Postmortem: Building a New Email Microservice to Stand Beside a Legacy System
May 9, 2025 · 7 min read · Background & Requirements About two years ago, I led a project to build a new email microservice for our company. The existing system—built about 15 years ago—was embedded in a monolithic codebase using a now-less-popular language. It sent customer e...
Join discussionSetting Up Your Email Server with Mailcow: Challenges and Lessons Learned
Dec 16, 2024 · 2 min read · Setting up your own email server is a rewarding but challenging project. In this post, I’ll share my experience configuring a Mailcow email server from scratch. I’ll walk you through the process, highlight common hurdles like port 25 restrictions on ...
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Build Email Server With Postfix and Dovecot
Dec 11, 2024 · 3 min read · # EMAIL SERVER SETUP ## TOOLS - Postfix - Dovecot - OpenDKIM - Froxlor (server management software) - PHP - MySQL - Nginx ## Intro The setup is quite straight forward, and thanks to [Froxlor](https://froxlor.org) for making things easier. This gu...
Join discussionWhat is DKIM? All About Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM)
Aug 12, 2024 · 6 min read · Email is one of the most common ways we communicate, whether for personal use or business. But with the convenience of email comes the risk of spam, phishing attacks, and email forgery. To protect against these threats, various security measures have...
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Deploying Postfix on AWS EC2: Easy Installation Steps
Jul 7, 2024 · 6 min read · Introduction : Postfix is a popular open-source mail transfer agent (MTA) that can be configured to send emails from your server. In this blog, I will walk you through installing and configure Postfix in Linux Ec2 instance so that it can be used to...
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What is an email server?
Jan 9, 2024 · 3 min read · In the vast landscape of digital communication, email remains an indispensable tool, powering professional correspondence, personal interactions, and business transactions. At the heart of this intricate network lies the email server, a critical comp...
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Mengkonfigurasi Mail Server
Jul 22, 2023 · 4 min read · Mail server adalah server yang memungkinkan pengguna (user) untuk dapat mengirim dan menerima surat elektronik atau email pada jaringan. Selain mail server terdapat pula Client server artinya pengguna atau user menggunakan aplikasi client server untu...
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Custom Email Server - Postfix, Dovecot, Squirrel Mail
Jan 5, 2023 · 5 min read · Introduction Project Background Hello All! This time we will be creating our very own Email Server which will be locally hosted by us. We will be using Postfix and Dovecot for our Back End configuration and will then join it with Squirrel Mail which ...
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