That sounds great. I don't think I would have the extra time required to learn how to do it though. Also, if I lose emails during the learning process, it could be a disaster.
SMTP is quite robust in the light of adversary conditions, it is not that easy to lose mail down a black hole. If you misconfigure the mail will be retried for about 4 days after which it is returned to sender. Once the mail has been delivered there are no safeguards anymore but by then it is just data on your server, open to backup. From MTA (Exim, Postfix, Sendmail...) via MDA (Dovecot, Cyrus, etc.) to MUA (mutt, Thunderbird, claws) the path is quite well-trodden so there are not that many surprises waiting.
The only real gotcha is how strict to tune the spam filter, get that wrong and you can actually lose mail. Assuming you'd use SpamAssassin the risk of getting false positives at the default setting is low, as far as I know it has not happened to me yet. If you regularly exchange important messages with people who speak Marketeese that might be different though...
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That sounds great. I don't think I would have the extra time required to learn how to do it though. Also, if I lose emails during the learning process, it could be a disaster.
SMTP is quite robust in the light of adversary conditions, it is not that easy to lose mail down a black hole. If you misconfigure the mail will be retried for about 4 days after which it is returned to sender. Once the mail has been delivered there are no safeguards anymore but by then it is just data on your server, open to backup. From MTA (Exim, Postfix, Sendmail...) via MDA (Dovecot, Cyrus, etc.) to MUA (mutt, Thunderbird, claws) the path is quite well-trodden so there are not that many surprises waiting.
The only real gotcha is how strict to tune the spam filter, get that wrong and you can actually lose mail. Assuming you'd use SpamAssassin the risk of getting false positives at the default setting is low, as far as I know it has not happened to me yet. If you regularly exchange important messages with people who speak Marketeese that might be different though...
That's a good point that I didn't think of.
Maybe I'll tinker with it when I have a little free time. I would also like to learn how to use Mutt.