I wrote earlier about my old Synology NAS dying. Turns out, after taking the drives out and letting it sit, I plugged a VGA monitor into it and I'm getting a GRUB prompt. It's not mounting, the drives are in my new chassis.

I'm glad I bought the new chassis, the old one was over 10 years old and is going EOL next year. I only use it for file storage and don't expose it to the internet, so the lack of updates is less concerning than it could be. Still...

I could throw some drives in it, use it to back up my "production" (ha!) Synology unit and store it somewhere else for offsite backup.

Back in 2000-2004 I ran Courier IMAP, Sendmail, fetchmail and procmail successfully. I had a couple of outages that compelled me to move my mail services to a third-party and later to webmail.

I've never been a fan of my mail sitting in the cloud, but the benefits outweighed the advantages. Now, I've been concerned about leaving semi-sensitive data out there.

I have a homelab and could spin up a docker or LXC container easily, so I could certainly run another mail server for my other domains. Mailcow looks good, I've seen other all-in-one mail solutions as well.

My Synology NAS even has a pretty decent mail/collaboration app.

I'd like to end up with my email sitting behind my firewall, webmail available through my reverse proxy, and the only data sitting in the cloud being backups in encrypted blobs.

Before then, I'll need to upgrade my internet. Backing up 2TB of data over my 600/20 cable connection would be painfully slow and cost around $100 in overages.

Comcast blocks most SMTP traffic (and I think AT&T still does, too) so I'll need a solution to act as mail exchanger for 2-3 domains and forward them to me on an alternate port.

In the meantime, I could just download my mail from Google via IMAP and delete it from the server as I go.