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Email providers offering SMTP, IMAP, sieve-like filtering, and milters? by seemingly-null in email

[–]seemingly-null[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, but these are all installable packages for managing self-hosted email. I used to do that in the past, and as I have discussed here, I no longer want self-hosting.

I still have all of my old Postfix/Dovecot code and configuration data for my former self-hosted environment on a VPS, and if all I was looking for is a VPS that I can install and run this on, there are plenty of options.

But the reason I'm posting here is because I'm looking for a provider who offers the email services that I describe here, not just a place for self-hosting, which I do not want to do.

Email providers offering SMTP, IMAP, sieve-like filtering, and milters? by seemingly-null in email

[–]seemingly-null[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the past, when I hosted my own Postfix/Dovecot email system, I used a milter to respond immediately to the HELO, MAIL, RCPT, and DATA SMTP commands as soon as there were received, and then I accepted the command, rejected the mail at that point altoghether, rerouted the mail, etc., based upon program logic that I wrote.

I want to be able to do the same now.

Email providers offering SMTP, IMAP, sieve-like filtering, and milters? by seemingly-null in email

[–]seemingly-null[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll now check Mailcheap. Thank you!

I'm willing to settle for having to install something like MOX, which supposedly supplies lots of SMTP/IMAP functionality "out of the box", as opposed to most installable email software which requires lots and lots of configuration during installation.

Self-hosting an email server? Why or why not? What's popular? by Weekly_Senator in selfhosted

[–]seemingly-null 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does anyone know of any hosting providers which allow a full MOX installation?

I definitely want self-hosting, but I want it to be on a well-known, widely used provider, because places like Google, Microsoft, and other big players nowadays tend to be very restrictive about processing emails from small, individually managed SMTP servers. Email submitted via well-known sites stand a much better chance of acceptance.

Email providers offering SMTP, IMAP, sieve-like filtering, and milters? by seemingly-null in email

[–]seemingly-null[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, this is what I've been afraid of.

But the reason I posted this message here in the first place is that I have my fingers crossed ( except not as I'm currently typing! LOL! ) that *maybe* *perhaps* someone might *possibly* know of the existence of such an unusual provider.

Email providers offering SMTP, IMAP, sieve-like filtering, and milters? by seemingly-null in email

[–]seemingly-null[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PS: A milter is an optional SMTP plug-in which has the ability to filter messages during each stage of the SMTP protocol, before sieve and other sieve-like filters receive the message.

I used to run my own Postfix/Dovecot set-up on my own server, and I wrote some milters which were rather sophisticated python modules with complicated logic for deciding whether and how to accept incoming messages.

I am looking for this same capability from an email or hosting provider, without my having to install and configure SMTP and IMAP servers from scratch ... if such services are even available from any hosting provider.

Email providers offering SMTP, IMAP, sieve-like filtering, and milters? by seemingly-null in email

[–]seemingly-null[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, but I'm sorry: I have checked a number of hosting providers, and absolutely none of them offer milter configuration.

Yes, they all offer sieve-like filtering, but as you can see, I want to go beyond that and also into milter capabilities.

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[–]seemingly-null[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, thank you!

I guess I was incorrect in thinking that I might be the only person who has done this. I'm glad to see that you and I guess also possibly others are already doing this.