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Mail-in-a-Box: a mail server in a box
If all I needed was SMTP? I'd likely just use Amazon SES or Mailgun.
I know some folks have concerns with the privacy of that(1), and really want to run their own SMTP. If that's the case, Mail In A Box can do the job, or you can go with a pure SMTP solution like https://github.com/ix-ai/smtp (not endorsing it -- it's just been on my radar) or a roll-your-own Postfix/Exim solution. The latter requires almost zero resources after it's set up; slap it on a $20/year VM and you're done.
1. Chasing privacy with email is a chimera. If you really want private communications, email is not the tool.
Mail-in-a-Box
- Mail-in-a-Box – Take back control of your email
- Ask HN: Self Hosting an Email Server?
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Small business owner: considering signi g up to Microsoft Office Premium for mail etc.
may i recommend https://mailinabox.email ?
- Mail-in-a-Box: a mail server in a box
- mailinabox: Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box.
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Sandstorm, Tempest, and the Future
I don't see why we are a long way away. At the sandstorm end, we need to get to the point, where all updates (of both sandstorm and the apps) on the user machine are automatic. Much like they are automatic on various OSes (mobile OSes in particular but also MacOS/Windows). This is not impossible if a single OS like Debian-testing is targeted.
Mailinabox [1] almost does it. They target Ubuntu stable, and upgrades are mostly silent. But they needed user intervention when Ubuntu had to be upgraded from 18.10 to 22.04, which was quite challenging.
If sandstorm can get there, then putting it into a RPi box is simple. What's difficult is helping the general public understand the importance of protecting their data, so such a product has a reasonable market.
[1] https://mailinabox.email/
- Self hosting email server on Raspberry Pi 4
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[advice needed] - Selfhosted Mail Server
If you have a better solution, for example a good provider who offer agency packages which allows many domains and there is no catch, for example very small disk space, then hit me right away. Otherwise, please share your experience with hosting your own mail service. I found https://mailinabox.email/ and https://www.iredmail.org/ for example, but never had any experience with neither of them.
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what to use for self hosting email
mailinabox.email works great on a basic vps.
What are some alternatives?
docker-postfix - Simple SMTP server / postfix null relay host for your Docker and Kubernetes containers. Based on Alpine Linux.
Mailcow - mailcow: dockerized - 🐮 + 🐋 = 💕
docker-postfix - Simple SMTP relay docker image.
modoboa - Mail hosting made simple
forwardemail.net - Privacy-focused encrypted email for everyone.
iRedMail
docker-mailserver - A fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) using Docker. [Moved to: https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver]
Mailu - Insular email distribution - mail server as Docker images
iRedMail - Full-featured, open source mail server solution for mainstream Linux/BSD distributions.
docker-mailserver - Production-ready fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) running inside a container.
Nextcloud - ☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data
power-mailinabox - A Mail-in-a-Box with extra capabilities and more customizability. Not just for power users!