pfelk VS Haraka

> So many chinese and russians IPs...

And Korean, and Dutch, I recall significant from Central America.

For anyone interested in what Geo's appear to be attacking you, and is a noob like me: https://github.com/pfelk/pfelk is really cool.

I have been debating in my head whether to keep my current setup (PFsense on an old laptop) or buy a 'proper?' solution, by this I mean specialised hardware. PFsense has had a few issues like randomly dropping out, but it has been fine for around 4 days now. My question is: Should I buy a Mikrotik HEX S and use the laptop for other things, or not buy a Mikrotik and instead buy a Dell Optiplex 3020 from Ebay and run SecurityOnion (https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion) or pfELK (https://github.com/pfelk/pfelk) on it.

I really like using ELK stack for centralized logging of my home servers. pfelk Is a great jumping off point with plenty of documentation to get you started ingesting logs.

I found that Zerodha uses Haraka and Karan–their DevOps guy, mentioned it is easy-setup and performant.

The next time this happens i'll move to a self hosted solution, like haraka or anonaddy

Haraka Like: Simple to hook into the processing pipeline Dislike: Node.js and had some issues with stability when I last tried it

Having another SMTP as a choice is cool but not as fun as something that is way more configurable (ex. Haraka), or API driven (a la Postal).

Look at Haraka: http://haraka.github.io/

For the record, I'm using dovecot (https://www.dovecot.org/) for IMAP and Haraka (https://haraka.github.io/) for SMTP.

I run my own mail servers for small projects, though for my main email I've actually switched to ProtonMail.

It's never been easier to self host your email with projects like the following around:

- https://foxcpp.dev/maddy/

- https://github.com/albertito/chasquid

- https://github.com/haraka/haraka

Of course the usual dovecot + postfix setup is great for learning even if a bit complicated.

Haraka (https://haraka.github.io/) is a plugin-based mailserver written in JavaScript. I've messed with postfix before but found Haraka easier because instead of arcane configuration files I can just read, copy, and tweak a plugin to suit my needs. Policies for receiving, storing, forwarding, and ignoring mail can be arbitrarily complex.