Reflections on running my own mail server for 10 years - eviltoast
  • Illecors@lemmy.cafe
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    1 year ago

    Article is not great, but I share the general sentiment that running your own email is not difficult. Setup takes some time, but once done - it’s just a regular linux server, nothing fancy about it. Letsencrypt takes care of the certs, cron takes care of rebooting when necessary.

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      1 year ago

      Reboot? Since when does Linux need a reboot? I’ve been thinking about migrating from FreeBSD to Linux, but now I am confused.

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        1 year ago

        It has always needed a reboot when it comes to kernel or init. Same applies to BSDs.

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          1 year ago

          You mean when you update the kernel? No one updates init on BSDs. This is mostly a entire world upgrade. But I’d never reboot from cron. My servers run 100 days without a reboot on average. In most cases there is no reason to update world, only the packages.

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              1 year ago

              Of course, but I can see and understand what is patched and can see if I’m affected or not. In the previous version I haven’t been affected for 500 days.