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   antsu (antsu@p.antsu.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 10:12:59 JST antsu

   Remember that VPS? Now it's my own email server!

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     Cadu Silva :frevo: (cadusilva@bolha.one)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 10:12:57 JST Cadu Silva :frevo:

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     @antsu what are you using?

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     Cadu Silva :frevo: (cadusilva@bolha.one)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 10:14:18 JST Cadu Silva :frevo:

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     @antsu thanks!

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     antsu (antsu@p.antsu.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 10:14:19 JST antsu

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     • Cadu Silva :frevo:
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     @cadusilva Mailcow running on a @netcup ARM VPS.
     https://mailcow.email/

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     Cadu Silva :frevo: (cadusilva@bolha.one)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 10:15:02 JST Cadu Silva :frevo:

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     @antsu

     PS.: how does it work with multiple domains?

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     Cadu Silva :frevo: (cadusilva@bolha.one)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 10:21:59 JST Cadu Silva :frevo:

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     @antsu good, that's what I wanted to know. If it was like "off the shelf" services like FastMail, that generates DNS records so you can point your domain and everything is set up.

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     antsu (antsu@p.antsu.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 10:22:01 JST antsu

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     • Cadu Silva :frevo:

     @cadusilva I haven't tried it yet. I'll test the waters for a few days with my "less important" domain before migrating my main one.
     In theory it should be very straightforward, just add the extra domain in the settings and create/modify the necessary DNS records.

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     Cadu Silva :frevo: (cadusilva@bolha.one)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 10:37:08 JST Cadu Silva :frevo:

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     @antsu thank you :ms_slight_smile:

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     antsu (antsu@p.antsu.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 10:37:09 JST antsu

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     • Cadu Silva :frevo:

     @cadusilva Ah no, in that case no, you have to create your own records, Mailcow doesn't manage DNS. But their documentation is really good in explaining what needs to be created and why.
     https://docs.mailcow.email/getstarted/prerequisite-dns/

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     Cadu Silva :frevo: (cadusilva@bolha.one)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2025 05:06:39 JST Cadu Silva :frevo:

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     @antsu good to know in advance, thank you!

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     antsu (antsu@p.antsu.net)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2025 05:06:41 JST antsu

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     • Cadu Silva :frevo:

     @cadusilva I couldn't wait and ended up migrating over the other domain today too. One catch I didn't anticipate is that whatever you use as the MX record needs a matching PTR record, and you can only have one PTR, so all your domains will have the same MX (which doesn't even need to be in those domains, it can be associated with a 3rd unrelated domain). The only downside of this is that this MX host will be used everywhere for auto configuration, which is a bit annoying.

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     Cadu Silva :frevo: (cadusilva@bolha.one)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2025 05:14:48 JST Cadu Silva :frevo:

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     @antsu I guess that for the time being, I'll keep using FastMail.

     With current currency exchange rates, it'll be cheaper too.

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     antsu (antsu@p.antsu.net)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2025 05:14:50 JST antsu

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     • Cadu Silva :frevo:

     @cadusilva One other thing to be aware of: if you're trying to keep your domains somewhat "secret" from each other, Mailcow adds all the names in the same certificate and uses this certificate for all domains.

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     antsu (antsu@p.antsu.net)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2025 05:14:51 JST antsu

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     • Cadu Silva :frevo:

     @cadusilva Trying to simplify a bit, imagine your server running Mailcow has the public IP 1.2.3.4, the fqdn mx.example.com, and a matching PTR.

     You setup Mailcow with this as the hostname, then add the domains example.org and example.net. Both domains will need MX records pointing to mx.example.com.

     When adding an account from one of these two domains to Thunderbird, it'll auto-populate the server field with that MX address instead of your domain.