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Like Amazon's SES?
I would recommend a 2GB+ VPS or Dedicated, and run iRedMail or similar for the easiest to setup solution. Either that, or grab a smaller VPS and dive into setting up postfix, if all the server is going to be doing is sending facebook notification style emails.
Thank you very much for all your help and useful information... can you guess monthly cost for that?
Yes... my own mailserver for our site ?
Look here http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/53691/running-a-mail-server#latest
Not many reputable providers have 2GB KVM plans in LET ranges, but your looking at 15-30 for a basic 2GB KVM VPS as I look around a couple of providers. You may be interested in dedicated at this point, but know that any decent VPS company will be able to restore access to your VPS in the event of a hardware emergency, data loss, or whatever, far quicker than you'd rebuild on a new node from scratch. Hardware upgrades are as trivial as a migration too.
If you are looking to setup a simple SMTP relay, to handle emails from a webapp, your fine with a 512MB OpenVZ VPS and Postfix, around $5 a month.
Have a look at https://mailinabox.email/
Try using Zimbra I use it as my main mail server
Zimbra need pretty lot of resource..
https://github.com/andryyy/mailcow
Hey man, if you're asking this, then you do not understand how much pain you will have with own mailserver.
In 2015, the matter with sending emails looks good. You can easily find a lot of cheap and good providers for the delivery of your letters.
for self use it is very easy. If you want all sorts of restrictions/additional software (which you do when offering email services to others) it is a bit of a pain in the ass.
If you want to get an email server up and running, use one of the above suggestions like iRedMail, VestaCP, Mail-in-a-Box, and what not.
If you actually want to actually learn how to set up a mail server, Ars Technica published four articles that take you through the process:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-to-run-your-own-e-mail-server-with-your-own-domain-part-1/
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/taking-e-mail-back-part-2-arming-your-server-with-postfix-dovecot/
http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/taking-e-mail-back-part-3-fortifying-your-box-against-spammers/
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/taking-e-mail-back-part-4-the-finale-with-webmail-everything-after/
You don't really need all of that if it's just for outbound mailing, though.
I set up postfix for just my own use and that's fairly simple. To avoid a lot of security problems I use an SSH tunnel from the home machine that I use for e-mail. I suspect that setting up dovecot as well would involve a lot more headaches because of spam issues.
this is actually very good according to first impressions and tests of mine.
also
vestacp is easy to install and use
And also they just released their new version with a new look and more improvements.
Also testing it. It is also good.
Thanks for mentioning our project.