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This is honestly an academic exercise because almost everyone uses Google's IMAP servers or other big ones, and anyone who doesn't are probably spammers. So, you have to try really, really hard and put a lot of settings up to not act like a spammer. A spammer can do these exact same things, too, which means you'll need to try really hard to gain reputation and manually remove yourself from blacklists until you've put in so much effort that people have to assume you <em>aren't</em> a spammer. <em>Then</em>, if you get compromised and a spammer gains access to your mail server, you have to go through all of this all over again!
 
== Own server ==
postfix start
 
=== SpamPorts ===
The IMAP server (dovecot) uses port <code>143</code> for <code>STARTTLS</code>.
 
The IMAP server (dovecot) uses port <code>993</code> for <code>SSL/TLS</code>.
=== Spam ===
 
This configuration uses "Normal password" for the authentication method since Dovecot uses PAM as the login.
 
The SMTP server (postfix) uses port <code>587</code> for <code>STARTTLS</code>.
 
The SMTP server (postfix) uses port <code>465</code> for <code>SSL/TLS</code>.
 
I was only able to get <code>SSL/TLS</code> working for the IMAP server. The SMTP server needed to use <code>STARTTLS</code>.
== Spam ==
Spam is a big issue with email and it's "fixed" by blocking literally everything (Google's policy) if the IP isn't positively trustworthy. If it's slightly trustworthy, the email is simply sent directly to spam rather than being completely blocked.
 
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