Apparently I installed that thing in 2006 and I last updated it in 2016, then I quit updating it for some reason that I totally forgot. Probably laziness…

It’s been running for quite some time and we kind of forgot about it in the closet, until the SSH tunnel we use to get our mail outside our home stopped working because modern openssh clients refuse to use the antiquated key cipher I setup client machines with way back when any longer.

I just generated new keys with a more modern cipher that it understands (ecdsa-sha2-nistp256) and left it running. Because why not 🙂

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
    38·
    2 months ago

    Genuinely surprised when I see people running mail servers without issue. I suppose getting in relatively early means you’re not immediately sent to junk mail lists by the big players.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      I’ve started up new domains and never had an issue getting mail accepted.

      There’s a right way to do it, and most people that complain that hosting email is impossible don’t know how to configure it correctly.

    • Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      You need SPF, DKIM, DMARC with a RUA set up to an email that doesn’t bounce. That’s pretty much it. I’ve been running email servers a long time and actually set up email from a new domain/IP a couple of years ago as well.