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66 lines
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Mail in a Box
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One-click deployment of your own mail server and personal cloud (so to speak).
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This draws heavily on Sovereign by Alex Payne (https://github.com/al3x/sovereign) and the "NSA-proof your email in 2 hours" blog post by Drew Crawford (http://sealedabstract.com/code/nsa-proof-your-e-mail-in-2-hours/).
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Deploying to EC2 from the command line
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Amazon's EC2 isn't a great place to host a mail server. Do you still need to request permission to send email first? And you don't know if you'll get an IP address with a bad reputation from its previous owner. But it makes deployment easy, so it may at least be useful for testing.
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Sign up for Amazon Web Services.
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Create an Access Key at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home?#security_credential. Download the key and save the information somewhere secure.
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Set up your environment and paste in the two parts of your access key that you just downloaded:
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sudo apt-get install ec2-api-tools
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export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=your_access_key_id
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export AWS_SECRET_KEY=your_secret_key
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export EC2_URL=ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
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export AWS_AZ=us-east-1a
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The first time around, create a new volume (disk drive) to store your stuff.
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source ec2/new_volume.sh
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If you want to reuse an existing volume:
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export VOLUME_ID=...your existing volume id...
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Here we're using the Ubuntu 13.04 amd64 instance-store-backed AMI in the us-east region. You can select another at http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/.
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Generate a new "keypair" (if you don't have one) that will let you SSH into your machine after you start it:
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ec2addkey mykey > mykey.pem
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chmod go-rw mykey.pem
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Then launch a new instance. We're creating a m1.small instance --- it's the smallest instance that can use an instance-store-backed AMI. So charges will start to apply.
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source ec2/start_instance.sh
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It will wait until the instance is available.
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You'll probably want to associate it with an Elastic IP. If you do, you'll need to update the INSTANCE_IP variable.
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Configure the server:
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ssh -i mykey.pem ubuntu@$INSTANCE_IP
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Somehow download these files.
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sh scripts/index.sh
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...
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logout
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You'll also want to set reverse DNS (PTR), which is something your hosting provider will probably have a control panel for.
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Terminate your instance with:
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ec2-terminate-instances $INSTANCE
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