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ec2 - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud tips and howtos

Mail server in the cloud

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Amazon ec2 is an excellent stage for servers, and mail servers fits in very well. Here is a quick guide on setting up a mail server and on demand backup mx as well in the cloud.

Pre requisits

Two howtos in one:


Mail server

Instead of duplicating howtos, follow my How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system instead.


Backup mail server

If as above you can follow my How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system, then there is a extention section on how to set up backup mx servers.

This section will be extended to show how to set this up without the local delivery, without IMAP etc, thus a true backup mx.

Amazon ec2 Mail issues

Having mail servers in the cloud of Amazon ec2 does have a couple of issues.