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I want to get off Gmail for two reasons:

  1. my own *@mislav.net address
  2. to get my email under my own control so I can write scripts to process/analyze it

I've asked on Twitter what software should I use.
Here are the aggregated suggestions.

SMTP

  • postfix (unanimous)

@beanieboi says: you want maildir not mbox

IMAP

  • dovecot (almost unanimous)
  • Courier

spam protection

(not in any particular order)

webmail

I don't need webmail for myself, but here's what was suggested:

address book

give up everything and use Google Apps

Couple of people suggested this. Yes, it's the easiest solution, but the whole point of my question was getting off someone else's servers and onto mine.

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For additional email security, you can trivially setup DKIM and (though it's always trivial) SPF.

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