Haraka VS maddy

postale.io has an MX record that points to mail.postale.io, which resolves to an AWS IP address (probably an EC2 instance) and has Haraka listening on port 25 (if its SMTP banner can be believed)

I found that Zerodha uses Haraka and Karan–their DevOps guy, mentioned it is easy-setup and performant.

The next time this happens i'll move to a self hosted solution, like haraka or anonaddy

Haraka Like: Simple to hook into the processing pipeline Dislike: Node.js and had some issues with stability when I last tried it

Having another SMTP as a choice is cool but not as fun as something that is way more configurable (ex. Haraka), or API driven (a la Postal).

Look at Haraka: http://haraka.github.io/

For the record, I'm using dovecot (https://www.dovecot.org/) for IMAP and Haraka (https://haraka.github.io/) for SMTP.

I run my own mail servers for small projects, though for my main email I've actually switched to ProtonMail.

It's never been easier to self host your email with projects like the following around:

- https://foxcpp.dev/maddy/

- https://github.com/albertito/chasquid

- https://github.com/haraka/haraka

Of course the usual dovecot + postfix setup is great for learning even if a bit complicated.

Haraka (https://haraka.github.io/) is a plugin-based mailserver written in JavaScript. I've messed with postfix before but found Haraka easier because instead of arcane configuration files I can just read, copy, and tweak a plugin to suit my needs. Policies for receiving, storing, forwarding, and ignoring mail can be arbitrarily complex.

It's interesting how there is now

* Maddy: https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy

* Mox: https://github.com/mjl-/mox

* and Stalwart

which all see to aim for more or less the same niche. I wonder if we'll see two of those merge eventually.

Does anybody run maddy (https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy) in production or for personal matters?

Yeah, that's a bummer. If you need the docs, then its here.

I've been using maddy mail server as it's quick and easy to setup for over a year now

Both my home server and VPS have unattended upgrades with email notifications about faliures that override do not disturb on my phone. acme.sh has automatic TLS renewal configured with systemd. Maddy mail server itself runs on Docker that is also set up with systemd to automatically restart and start at reboots. When it comes to updating Maddy i just keep an eye on the release Atom feed and change the docker compose file and restart the container.

I wonder how does it compare to Maddy mail server: https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy

If you want to self hosted, I strongly recomend https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy since it's just a single binary to run.

If you still want to do it on your own, there is Go simple mail server - maddy where you can borrow some code or simply use it for the purpose as a IMAP server (I mentioned above, but dovecot as IMAP probably would be the best)

https://github.com/emersion has great libraries related to emails, for example go-imap. https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy is an email server written in Go that you could look into.

Check ready-to-go maddy-SMTP/IMAP server