Advice for setting up a mail server.

Over the past few months I have been slowly merging away from websites that don't regard my privacy.
I've changed search engines to duck duck go, deleted my facebook, and now I would like to get away from gmail too!
The only problem being I know nothing about hosting my own email. I have an arch box that is on 24/7 running a diaspora pod.
What email server would work best with this (If any)?
Last edited by Si1v3r (2011-08-01 23:40:30)

This was by far the best tutorial I found for setting up my own personal mail server:
http://workaround.org/ispmail/squeeze
I couldn't recommend it enough. There are a few quirks in places with the version differences but some reading around will sort you out.
It's written in a very Archlinux style and explains the concept fantastically.
Last edited by jack.mitchell (2011-08-12 21:23:40)

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Here you go:
Terminal:
command_directory = /usr/sbin
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