Replacing My Mail Server with AWS Ses

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alance

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alanceAuthor

2d ago

For many years I used an EC2 server for my personal email (running Debian and Postfix) but I recently decided it might be better to have one less internet-facing server to worry about.

This article documents the setup for AWS SES to handle incoming/outgoing mail delivery.

tim-tday

1d ago

Good god, no.

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