Dude, you crushed it. Amazing job. I have watched multiple videos on this and people discouraging me away from setting up my own mailserver. You made this simple. I am still working on getting things to be received on MailPlus but sending works. (which I am only using for notifications right now)
Wow, lot to learn. Makes me not feel bad paying about $3 per month for my exchange email. Although, it would be super cool to be my own email IT administrator and make up my own rules! It's too bad our society didn't go down the route of everyone self hosting their own emails. To me, it is the newer version of letter writing. We just were never taught how to do it.
Insanely great…couldn’t find solid info for this until now…but I went with a helm server…helm allows unlimited email accounts for a flat fee, unlike synology’s per user licensing scheme…spf, dkim, dmarc all handled for you…all you do is change your nameserver IPs…and no mail relay or ddns needed…but I love synology for everything else
You knocked it out of the park. Thank you so much. Do you have the follow up that talks about securing the Synology NAS after opening up all those ports? If I turn on the firewall, is that all that needs to be done?
Congratulations it's a fantastic video. When everyone says to give up Email Synology Server, you have managed to simplify it in a way that is accessible to most people. (I can send emails but I can't receive). Please continue to make more videos like this one. Some people cannot receive emails. Can you make a video and go on about this? (Email server in synology, setting (DKIM, DMARC, "Email Health, so many things)". Reggards!
Excellent tutorial! But I do have a question (or a few). You used port forwarding to your Mail Plus server (ports 25, 110, 465, 587, 993 and 995) to enable it to do it's job. What are the chances of getting your mail server abused by malicious (ab)users/spammers etc? Need to keep unwanted elements out.... Did you set up the firewall in your NAS and/or router and if so, could you explain exactly what you did? I have my Mail Server Plus up and running, but I think I have to redo that from scratch because some issues I have. (sometimes sending an e-mail will cause it to bounce back with a 550 Bad HELO error. So a bit of fiddling at my web/mail-host is very likely required.) Thanks for your time! André
@@WillieHowe still waiting on how to use the Mail Backup Service from dns exit together with the implemented solution to remove downtime issues. Probably able to figure out how to do it on my own but would be cool to see as part of the series for less savvy people. Especially since it was mentioned in earlier videos as well
Great videos, thank you. A question i have which bothers me, the whole point of having my own mailserver is to be able to have a private and fairly secured mail server system. My issue is if synology requires me to add licenses does it mean that they are able to monitor/access my emails technically? it defeats the point of privacy.
I am missing the "how to handle downtime" part. So if for some reason the NAS ever goes offline, how do we use the fallback mentioned in your part 3 video?
@@WillieHowe as I mentioned I think you touched on it in the previous video. Go thru the steps needed to ensure that email won’t be lost if the NAS or your router comes offline for any reason. So that the setup is foolproof 😊
I have Verizon, I have this all setup I can receive emails just fine from outside world but nothing goes out. Great videos can’t wait for more in this series!
I can send and receive internally, but not receiving from external email account. I can also send to external accounts, but when replying, nothing comes in.
@@WillieHowe I have Xfinity, with the modem in pass-thru, and a Fortigate as router, with all of the firewall rules. I can connect to my mail server VIA telnet from outside as well.
Please do more Synology MailPlus videos😊
Hi Willie!
Little late ...
Good videos about Synology Mail Plus.
Missing CGNAT setup? 😊
Dude, you crushed it. Amazing job. I have watched multiple videos on this and people discouraging me away from setting up my own mailserver. You made this simple. I am still working on getting things to be received on MailPlus but sending works. (which I am only using for notifications right now)
Wow, lot to learn. Makes me not feel bad paying about $3 per month for my exchange email. Although, it would be super cool to be my own email IT administrator and make up my own rules! It's too bad our society didn't go down the route of everyone self hosting their own emails. To me, it is the newer version of letter writing. We just were never taught how to do it.
Wow! Thank you! Got this one done also. prior video of ssl certificate and port forwarding helped setup encryption. thanks again!
well done as always
Great Job Willie, what about DKIM??
Insanely great…couldn’t find solid info for this until now…but I went with a helm server…helm allows unlimited email accounts for a flat fee, unlike synology’s per user licensing scheme…spf, dkim, dmarc all handled for you…all you do is change your nameserver IPs…and no mail relay or ddns needed…but I love synology for everything else
Great job Willie!
You knocked it out of the park. Thank you so much. Do you have the follow up that talks about securing the Synology NAS after opening up all those ports? If I turn on the firewall, is that all that needs to be done?
Absolutely fantastic video, looking forward to the next one, my mail is now up and running, thank you!
Congratulations it's a fantastic video. When everyone says to give up Email Synology Server, you have managed to simplify it in a way that is accessible to most people. (I can send emails but I can't receive). Please continue to make more videos like this one.
Some people cannot receive emails.
Can you make a video and go on about this? (Email server in synology, setting (DKIM, DMARC, "Email Health, so many things)". Reggards!
You're the best, man!!!! Very perfect and usefull videos!!!!
Great video. looking forward for more of that series. helped me a lot!
Excellent tutorial!
But I do have a question (or a few).
You used port forwarding to your Mail Plus server (ports 25, 110, 465, 587, 993 and 995) to enable it to do it's job.
What are the chances of getting your mail server abused by malicious (ab)users/spammers etc? Need to keep unwanted elements out....
Did you set up the firewall in your NAS and/or router and if so, could you explain exactly what you did?
I have my Mail Server Plus up and running, but I think I have to redo that from scratch because some issues I have. (sometimes sending an e-mail will cause it to bounce back with a 550 Bad HELO error. So a bit of fiddling at my web/mail-host is very likely required.)
Thanks for your time!
André
was there a CGNET setup video?
Be good to see how to implement spam filtering as part of this email series.
I must not have what it takes. Tried 3 times. No luck
Will there be more videos in this series?
@@WillieHowe still waiting on how to use the Mail Backup Service from dns exit together with the implemented solution to remove downtime issues. Probably able to figure out how to do it on my own but would be cool to see as part of the series for less savvy people. Especially since it was mentioned in earlier videos as well
Great videos, thank you.
A question i have which bothers me, the whole point of having my own mailserver is to be able to have a private and fairly secured mail server system. My issue is if synology requires me to add licenses does it mean that they are able to monitor/access my emails technically? it defeats the point of privacy.
They should only be able to monitor the contents if you give them access.
@@WillieHowe hell no, they don't have access. but they are the owner of the platform so maybe the have backdoor access in away.
@@aymanbabaRS6 I would hope we would know about it already.
I am missing the "how to handle downtime" part. So if for some reason the NAS ever goes offline, how do we use the fallback mentioned in your part 3 video?
@@WillieHowe as I mentioned I think you touched on it in the previous video. Go thru the steps needed to ensure that email won’t be lost if the NAS or your router comes offline for any reason. So that the setup is foolproof 😊
Thank you! I would love to see the version with port 25 inbound is blocked by the isp (like Verizon).
I have Verizon, I have this all setup I can receive emails just fine from outside world but nothing goes out.
Great videos can’t wait for more in this series!
@@MEDIKHERB I have the same problem. I can receive email on my Synology but nothing goes out. Did you get this resolved?
Hi. Am i correct understand that it possible to manage only through paid services? is it exist any free services for it?
I can send and receive internally, but not receiving from external email account. I can also send to external accounts, but when replying, nothing comes in.
Is your ISP blocking? Did you setup the MX record?
@@WillieHowe I changed it to port 26, and have setup A, MX, spf, and DKIM.
@@blakenorthrup the port is likely part of the issue. Is your ISP double or CGNAT?
@@WillieHowe I have Xfinity, with the modem in pass-thru, and a Fortigate as router, with all of the firewall rules. I can connect to my mail server VIA telnet from outside as well.
I can recieve emails but for some reason it is not sending. Help please.
Is your ISP blocking it?
@@WillieHowe I don't think that port is blocked.
@@WillieHowe I checked with port block tool and it is not blocked
Great!
Static IP please and no relay
Do you have the ability to control your rDNS?
@@WillieHowe Yes Wiilli but I cant get it to work properly. Ive configured mmany email servers: zimbra, iwarp, etc, but cant get this on to work
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