Ever wondered how an email server works🤔?
The limitation of ~1200 emails per day from my personal email lead me down this path of discovery. My not so novel idea to set up my own mail server to overcome this limitation turned out not so simple to implement, but do-able neverthless.
Here's a great resource from Digital Ocean to understand most of it, including
- Mail Transfer Agent
- Mail Delivery Agent
- IMAP and/or POP3 Server
- Spam Filter
- Antivirus
- Webmail
- Hosted mail sevices
Setting up an email server and getting it recognized as a legitimate one to have it run in the long run does not seem to be a menial task, using an hosted mail service is probably the better idea.
