Ask HN: Simplest way to send emails to myself?

1 points by s1k3s 3y ago ↗ HN

I need an email server that I can put on a VPS. I'm going to send emails only to myself, so I don't care about spam, identity verification etc. It needs to support SMTP, so I can send from multiple servers (automated messages). I also don't care about receiving emails on this server, so if I can block that it would be great.

What's the simplest way to do this? Can someone point me in the right direction?

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kjrose 3y ago ↗

Set up a straight postfix with relay blocking on a server using maildir. Set up whatever tool you want for pop or imap.

That way you get the emails and if you don't care about space, etc. And it uses very little processing power and is pretty much writing direct to disk the moment the emails come in.