maddy VS Mail-in-a-Box

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

may i recommend https://mailinabox.email ?

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/

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.

mailinabox.email works great on a basic vps.