[Evolution-users] Receive mail directly on my own computer

[Pete Biggs]

On Sun, 2025-10-19 at 14:29 -0400, janos via evolution-users wrote:
> On Sun, 2025-10-19 at 13:21 -0400, Michael S. via evolution-users
> wrote:
> > > A word of warning - any mail system open to the internet on port
> > > 25
> > > will be a target of abuse.
> > To echo Pete, take a look just at port 25.
> I'm responding from my own postfix mail server; and yes, setting up a
> mail server is not easy. I've had may share of problems in the past
> three years until (I think) I have a stable sestup. A slight
> configuration can expose your to all sorts of troubles.
> ...
> 

As a sort of "I wonder if I can still do it" thing I set up a mail
server to receive mail from the internet this afternoon: it was 20 mins
before I got the first probe (it was a host in China somewhere) and
I've had regular door knocking for the past few hours - a persistent
one has someone called Aleksei in the WhoIs.

P.