Mailu VS docker-mailserver

Made the switch to self-hosted https://mailu.io (on k8s) 2 years ago when Gandi announced the deprecation of their free plan.

Happy after IP was off most blocklists, but setup was kinda rough - https://mxtoolbox.com is your friend.

I'm just going to repeat a bunch of what hughesjj has already said, but anyway:

OPNSense (as my household's internet interface), Unifi Controller (as my household's primary wifi), Jellyfin, Wireguard, Pi-hole, LMS[0], Frigate NVR (migrating off ZoneMinder, awaiting delivery of a Coral TPU to finalise this), couchdb (as Noteself[1] back-end), nginx (serving a handful of sites for my own entertainment), Mailu[2], Calibre[3], various other in-flight experiments (which Home Assistant will soon become, Bitmagnet DHT scraper).

Most of the above are docker instances hosted on a small number of VMs hosted on two (or sometimes three) physical machines running proxmox.

[0]: https://github.com/epoupon/lms (HN lurker)

[1]: https://noteself.org/

[2]: https://mailu.io

[3]: https://fleet.linuxserver.io/image?name=linuxserver/calibre or https://fleet.linuxserver.io/image?name=linuxserver/calibre-... (I can't remember which)

Self hosted - I went for mailu and it's very good:

https://mailu.io/

I didn't enable its Webmail feature though, so I have no idea if it's good or not. I just use Mail on iOS and macOS.

Worth mentioning, if you want a docker-compose ready email server/service there's mailu[1]. It's relatively easy to get up and running, and will guide you through the DNS records for secure mail. I've got a couple test domains up so far, and it's mostly been good. Some outlook.com (not o365) domains have been problematic though, I'm sure everyone has stories here.

If the article's solution were open-source, would be interested in seeing the UI/UX. I also looked into WildDuck with great interest but the lack of good UI/UX is mostly what held me back. If I didn't have to work for a living, and was less lazy, I might have written something.

    1. https://mailu.io/

Consider installing Mailu instead, which is a single Docker container with a full mail server and Roundcube on top. Very easy to install.

I've been using Mailu (https://mailu.io/) for years and have had no problems. I love that it has the concept of domain admins so that people can manage mailboxes for their own domains. DNS isn't automatic, but meh. Upgrading is easy (Docker + automatic migrations).

Mailu is pretty solid for personal use and is lighter on memory than Mailcow

While hosting mail isn't easy, Mailu and similar projects make it way easier than it used to be.

I have used Roundcube docker-compose-fpm.yaml, which looks like it can be easily extended with docker-mailserver

However... For a live fire, in production setup I would push people to use a meta package like docker-mailserver, mailcow, mail-in-a-box or modoboa as it's better to have someone else set the sane defaults to prevent you from missing that one line in you config.

Se proprio vuoi farlo per il gusto di riprendere familiarità con i vari concetti, giocherei con dei set di container docker tipo https://github.com/tomav/docker-mailserver (su GitHub ne trovi molti altri, alcuni tipo mailcow anche con GUI per gestire il grosso delle opzioni).

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