DeadmanDAO Mail Server
AWS SES may be the solution: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/lists-and-subscriptions.html
No, it doesn't have nearly the capabilities of a real mailing list system.
Mailchimp is out because it was bought for so much money that the money squeeze is going to be intense.
Other commercial providers are not significantly less risky than Mailchimp.
Mailman is robust once deployed and the initial build-out is not too painful.
DeadmanDAO Mailman Build-out
Create Instance
- go to interserver
- create a single slice instance ($6/mo at this time)
- Debian
- KVM
- Log in root@ip.address using password you provided
apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install sudo
Set SPF
apt-get install net-tools ifconfig
That'll give you the ip4 and ip6 addresses, which go into the DNS text record:
- v=spf1 ip4:66.23.226.216 ip6:fe80::216:3eff:fe24:10e1 -all
Set Other DNS
- A Record, diffie, 66.23.226.216
- A Record, @, 66.23.226.216
- CNAME Record, www, diffie.deadmandao.com
- CNAME Record, mail, diffie.deadmandao.com
- TXT Record, diffe, v=spf1 ip4:66.23.226.216 ip6:fe80::216:3eff:fe24:10e1 -all
- MX Record, deadmandao.com, mail.deadmandao.com, 10
Set Hostname
apt-get install emacs-nox emacs -nw /etc/hostname diffie emacs -nw /etc/hosts 66.23.226.216 diffie.deadmandao.com diffie reboot hostname hostname --all-fqdn dnsdomainname
Webserver
apt-get install apache2
Put something up in /var/www/html
SMTP Server
apt-get install postfix
deadmandao.com is the host domain
IMAP Server
Skip this step.
apt-get install d o v e c o t - i m a p d
Up next should be Let's Encrypt, but I am going to skip that for now.
I'm actually thinking I don't need an IMAP server for DeadmanDAO or for BSBC, so I'm going to just leave this dangling. I'll probably do a fresh server build anyway and skip this step.
Mailman
Add Certbot (EFF)
https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=apache&os=debianbuster
Add Snapd
sudo apt update sudo apt install snapd sudo snap install core sudo snap refresh core
Snap Install Certbot
sudo snap install --classic certbot sudo ln -s /snap/bin/certbot /usr/bin/certbot
Get a Cert for Apache
sudo certbot --apache -d deadmandao.com -d www.deadmandao.com -d mail.deadmandao.com -d diffie.deadmandao.com