postfix
Haraka
postfix | Haraka | |
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2 | 16 | |
386 | 4,850 | |
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8.1 | 8.4 | |
20 days ago | 4 days ago | |
C | JavaScript | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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postfix
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New Linux glibc flaw lets attackers get root on major distros
FWIW C can do it too to some extent, here's postfix: https://github.com/vdukhovni/postfix/blob/master/postfix/src...
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At Least 30k U.S. Organizations Newly Hacked via Holes in MS’s Email Software
Postfix.
But that’s only an MTA i hear you cry, Exchange does both MTA & MDA! Bear with me.
Postfix is software to learn from. It might be written in C but the architecture is the epitome of beautiful modular design. It’s not just the meticulous separation of concerns, the care and attention to detail, everything from string handling to memory management is pristinely handled. https://github.com/vdukhovni/postfix
Even at runtime the beauty of the architecture allows for a sysadmin to choose (via master.cf) exactly how the components should be composed to fit their needs. The defaults are crafted for minimum fuss if you just need to get it running ASAP. The software is ergonomic in addition to being artfully crafted.
So what does all this care and attention get you? Only 9 CVEs in 22 years, only 3 of which are code exec, only 2 of which are (maybe) remote code exec, only 1 of which is unauth user RCE - but very hard in practice to exploit.
Maybe it’s just not that popular? It was 1/3 of all SMTP servers on the internet according to a 2019 scan.
So it’s the best MTA ever to exist, but what about MDA? Well, that was the whole point. Compose well crafted components together to build a system. You especially don’t run part of your mailserver’s web interface in kernel space because, well i’m not sure why IIS/Exchange does that :-)
Haraka
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postale.io? Is this legit? Email hosting unlimited domains.
postale.io has an MX record that points to mail.postale.io, which resolves to an AWS IP address (probably an EC2 instance) and has Haraka listening on port 25 (if its SMTP banner can be believed)
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Breaking Free: How I Self-Hosted My SMTP Server with Haraka. Send thousands of emails per second at the cost of pennies.
I found that Zerodha uses Haraka and Karan–their DevOps guy, mentioned it is easy-setup and performant.
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How do you handle SMTP and service emails?
The next time this happens i'll move to a self hosted solution, like haraka or anonaddy
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Quest for the simple SMTP Server
Haraka Like: Simple to hook into the processing pipeline Dislike: Node.js and had some issues with stability when I last tried it
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Self-hosting email is simultaneously the hardest it's ever been (delivery) and the easiest it's ever been (setup).
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).
- Email Done My Way, Part 0 – The Journey
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Looking for lightweight pop server with approved sender (full email) per user list
Look at Haraka: http://haraka.github.io/
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Mailserver
For the record, I'm using dovecot (https://www.dovecot.org/) for IMAP and Haraka (https://haraka.github.io/) for SMTP.
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Running a private mail server for six years, easy peasy
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.
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Is a 'dumb' self-hosted email server possible.
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.
What are some alternatives?
OpenSMTPD - This is official OpenSMTPD Portable repository. Forks, pull requests and other contributions are welcome!
zone-mta - 📤 Modern outbound MTA cross platform and extendable server application
CSS-Exchange - Exchange Server support tools and scripts
Postal - 📮 A fully featured open source mail delivery platform for incoming & outgoing e-mail
Mailu - Insular email distribution - mail server as Docker images
docker-mailserver - Production-ready fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) running inside a container.
Mail-in-a-Box - Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box.
Dovecot - Dovecot mail server
Exim - Exim Mail Transport Agent - source, testsuite and documentation
MailHog - Web and API based SMTP testing
Maildrop