Haraka VS Mailcow

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.

I've been running mailcow [1] on a Hetzner cloud server for a few years and am pretty happy with it.

[1] https://mailcow.email

I have been searching for a self-hosted suite similar to Google Worksuite. I found the following: 1. Mailcow - https://mailcow.email/

Yes, I switched to mailcow (https://mailcow.email) and installed Roundcube via the excellent tutorial (https://docs.mailcow.email/third_party/roundcube/third_party-roundcube).

I've heard good things about mailcow

https://mailcow.email/

You can self host email if you really want to, but it's really more trouble than it's worth. If you do self host, you have to worry about the consequences of missed emails if your server or Internet ever goes down, and you'll have to use someone else's SMTP server if you don't want your emails to go directly to spam. The cheapest good SMTP server is Amazon SES, which I believe is $0.10 per 10k emails. I've been looking into mailcow for self hosting an email server and it seems the best way to go.

However, https://mailcow.email/ is the ONLY exclusion I make for that. As it's an all in one docker managed solution. Where the only things you have to worry about is the reputation of your mailing IP.

But its probably easier to use a dockerized container with all the mail stuff integrated and pre-setup like: https://mailcow.email/

If you're looking for a full solution that I haven't tried (due to resources) try: MailCow. Good luck.