/tags/linux/ Recent content in Linux on anitabyte Hugo en Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0100 /posts/2026/07/30/trixie-email-server/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0100 /posts/2026/07/30/trixie-email-server/ <p><em>If you just want to get to the guide, <a href="/posts/2026/07/30/trixie-email-server/#setting-it-all-up">click here to go directly there</a> and skip the what and why</em></p> <h2 id="what-are-we-building">What are we building?</h2> <p>In a sentence, we&rsquo;re going to build a mail server that only enables secure logins, has spam filtering and handles at-rest encryption for our emails. Sounds simple enough, right? Unfortunately, email is a fifty-plus year-old technology that has grown organically since the early internet and is premised on the idea of a network where people broadly kind of trust each other and we don&rsquo;t have to concern ourselves with mitigating the risks of unauthorised access, spam and other miseries. We&rsquo;re dealing with 2026 issues on the base of 1970s technologies: it&rsquo;s a challenging setup.</p>