Comments on How to build your own cloud for you and your friends on Debian Wheezy

Here's an overview what we will do: Get a Virtual Private Server, a domain name, and set them up, set up postfix and dovecot to send and receive email, prevent SPAM from reaching your INBOX, make sure the emails you send get through spam filters, host calendars, contacts, files with Owncloud and set up webmail and Sync your devices to the cloud.

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By: Fenisu

Looks pretty good but something that would be great is to use ldap instead of mysql on the email, so you can manage the user accounts for the mail service and the owncloud service (with the ldap plugin) from the same database / management interface.

By: chaud lapin

This is an impressive tour-de-force! Wish I had it in 2007 when I set up my first private mail server -- took me a lot longer than five hours to figure everything out ;)

I hadn't heard of dovecot-sieve; I went to install it as well, but alas I am already running dovecot v2 and that is for v1.

Also, I have mixed feelings about RBLs. In my experience the combination of greylisting and adaptive filtering (dspam) is highly effective with an extremely low rate of false positives and without the rigidity of black lists.

By: MC CRoll

Hi Roudy,

thank you for sharing this very informative and comprehensive tutorial!

I have started using my ownCloud almost one year ago and I am still enthusiastic about all its possibilities for sharing data in a sfae way!

I hope with this tutorial even more people will be inspired to start their own ownCloud!

two thumbs up!

MC CRoll

By: GroepDS.be

Hello,

I folowed your fantastic guide as it was just what I needed. I love the combination of the owncloud and the mail server. I also installed Odoo on the same machine and now I'm in the process of using the users in the odoo database for email and adapting your scripts to do that. The only thing I can't get my head around is the passwords...

I used the command 'doveadm pw -s SHA512-CRYPT' a couple of times and supplied the same password with this result:

{SHA512-CRYPT}$6$62b4zqH72SI3829M$eogLgklb8aZW9T7hx97ycG2GS0bXx6gfNNNTwUHqHgubDaKQjjyJoRV8Jgp/tntPRsF8t2JJso/VNkVCmTpqb1

{SHA512-CRYPT}$6$1Ylhqe2hZBvRvuyY$Og/.eAJJFoI2SeLwP4xMf0cWDCJKYZ702AknaKrke.UDGhJRECKPLY1hH4sNLKkejjeUl4zoMG3plAy4H5nhS.

{SHA512-CRYPT}$6$xOyiW68N4Lgl8nQt$pHtovooIn6vPih3p8La58iHx3xcPkNuKCt8dc4ncgWkKLwep0vE1x9uqUomtWMOWAPBqLuxjGXa0k7osXUXkJ0

{SHA512-CRYPT}$6$YuTwf7iIKPvJ2p6R$/etUdkzSTkrNheBsgt5.LFvR6I8kIOAGkC96iO/yL0Wulb1tL4GnJEtgPQAEjCxp0FrDBtUEd89jmJGwYGxc60

{SHA512-CRYPT}$6$MQ5Sr2.XNittYgly$qmtg1sRBivbWEUyTJgjzY9uQ7x0jelkysUmYfCqRPL6b4pO5DPhr1Z0eMd9yuYCgWgYNPH0OLZ1LqltEg9FF/1

Each output is different than the previous. How can this be? Is this normal?

Again a big thumbs up on saving my life, it would have taken me a heck of lot longer to get this up and running without it!

Dennis

By: John

Great tutorial, it's been a big help getting my own domain email self hosted again after a major price hike. But I've run into the problem where I have family members who get their email elsewhere, such as gmail. So if I setup a virtual_alias entry for the following, it won't work:

[email protected] -> [email protected]

I get relaying denied when people try to send email to [email protected], but I'm perfectly happy to relay email to them.

Thanks,

John