Re: Email privacy on a VPS?

[Eric Johnson]

On Friday, September 18th, 2026 at 00:16, dra...@wts.slmail.me 
<dra...@wts.slmail.me> wrote:

> I am considering running my own email domain/server.
> To protect my private home IP, I was thinking of using a VPS, tunnelled
> back.
> 

> Will the VPS "see" my email this way, relaying off the VPS server to my
> local one?
> (see diagram)
> 

> Is there a better approach to retain privacy without revealing my IP?
> 

> Would appreciate any input on this, as I have never run email myself
> before.
> Thanks for any suggestions
> 

>   DNS Domain      VPS Host (static IP)
> ┌─────────┐     ┌──────────┐
> │MX Record┼────►│OpenSMTPD │
> └─────────┘     └────┬─────┘
>                       │
>                       │ Wireguard tunnel
>                       ▼
>                  ┌──────────┐
>                  │pf.conf   │ (allow mail in)
>                  │OpenSMTPD │
>                  └──────────┘
> 

> 


For anonymity, you might consider SimpleLogin from Proton. It allows you to 
create a new e-mail address with a SimpleLogin domain that is forwarded to your 
own domain. When you reply, it goes back to SimpleLogin who replaces it with 
the e-mail address in the SimpleLogin domains.

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