Hello ladies and gentlemen,
I want to setup my own email server, on my home debian server. I am already running a website (have a FQDN), and static IP.
There are numerous "simple" tutorials for setting up Dovecot, Postfix, and Squirrelmail.
I will proceed cautiously.
Was thinking of the following steps (more or less):
1. install Postfix and Dovecot
2. turn them both off -- until they are configured to my liking.
3. test them locally, before setting up MX and A records for the mail.
My primary concern/question is:
I don't want email spammers/frauder/etc, to send email from my domain before I can properly set it up. Should I be concerned about this? How can I subvert this? I am not a sys administrator, so I am doing this for the first time, and trying to be careful.