[{"content":"After months of rejection from multiple VPS providers and even claude telling me “don’t do it its too hard.” I was finally able to get a self-hosted email server.\n\u0026ldquo;Choosing to do self managed email is like most of my relationship decisions:\nJust because you can doesn’t mean you should It’s messy, complicated, high maintenance. You’ll regret it later.\u0026rdquo; — Louis Rossman1\nI still chose to do it :).\nThe hardest part? Getting the VPS provider to open port 25. I used DigitalOcean previously and probably spent a week back and forth on tickets just to get a rejection as a reply. Initially I thought this was due to the age of the account, since forums online mention success for people whose accounts were active for longer. So I decided to wait a month and a few weeks before opening another ticket and yet again face rejection.\nAt that point I switched to Linode, hoping the process would be much easier. They rejected me even before I made an account 😑. An issue faced by others as well.\nAfter emailing them twice to validate my account not as spam, I got to even migrate to Linode. From there on it was actually easy and Linode’s support team was very helpful as well.\nTbh, multiple tools and scripts online really help make the process much easier.\nThis emailwiz script helps initialize dovecot and postfix along with OpenDKIM and spamassassin. OpenDKIM is extremely important in order for the emails to be not categorized as spam.\ndkim test can be used to validate the DKIM configurations of the mail server.\nFor a range of other tests and for troubleshooting mxtoolbox is also very handy.\nTL;DR Digital Ocean doesn’t open port 25 anymore for new accounts. W Linode; even though you might need to verify your account (as not spam) more than once. Try making your own email servers, its actually fun. The above quote is excerpted from Louis Rossman\u0026rsquo;s video or guide on a Self-Mangaged Life.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n","permalink":"https://blog.amanmohammed.xyz/posts/email-server-init/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eAfter months of rejection from multiple VPS providers and even claude telling me “\u003cem\u003edon’t do it its too hard.\u003c/em\u003e” I was finally able to get a self-hosted email server.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;\u003cstrong\u003eChoosing to do self managed email is like most of my relationship decisions:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJust because you can doesn’t mean you should\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt’s messy, complicated, high maintenance.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou’ll regret it later.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— \u003c!-- raw HTML omitted --\u003eLouis Rossman\u003csup id=\"fnref:1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#fn:1\" class=\"footnote-ref\" role=\"doc-noteref\"\u003e1\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/sup\u003e\u003c!-- raw HTML omitted --\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Pains of Private Personal Mail"},{"content":"Hi After watching maybe one too many Luke Smith videos, I have finally decided to \u0026ldquo;become an internet landlord\u0026rdquo;. Which ofcource is just slang for owning a website.\nNow this website as I see it will either serve as a goldmine of information or a stalkers greatest dream. But more than these 2 I intend for this to be a digital archive of me. How I grow, my fleeting interests and lifelong progress.\nWith that underway, feel free to look through the Archives and read the posts and if you really enjoy it, consider adding the blog to your RSS feed RSS Feed .\n","permalink":"https://blog.amanmohammed.xyz/posts/first-blog/","summary":"\u003ch1 id=\"hi\"\u003eHi\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter watching maybe one too many \u003ca href=\"https://lukesmith.xyz/\"\u003eLuke Smith\u003c/a\u003e videos, I have finally decided to \u0026ldquo;become an internet landlord\u0026rdquo;. Which ofcource is just slang for owning a website.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow this website as I see it will either serve as a goldmine of information or a stalkers greatest dream. But more than these 2 I intend for this to be a digital archive of me. How I grow, my fleeting interests and lifelong progress.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"Hello World"}]