[Discuss] Wireguard [Was Re: dovecot: "Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs)"?]

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

Kent Borg wrote: 
> I hadn't heard of Wireguard before. It looks cool.
> 
> Being one of those weirdos who runs his own e-mail servers, I've been
> getting frustrated that there doesn't seem to be an affordable way to get a
> reliable static IP address at home. I have been thinking the way to do it
> might be to still run the server at home, but tunnel to a static IP address
> at someplace like Linode.
> 
> Wireguard, from my quick look, makes it look pretty easy. Tell the server
> software to use the Wireguard network device, on then on the cloud end tell
> the e-mail related ports to route to the Wireguard network device on that
> end.

That's one way of doing it.

Another is to run a full mail server on the remote VM, and use
it as a relay for your house mail server.

-dsr-