Mailcow VS whoogle-search

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

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).

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.

What is it all about with mailcow.email and access to docker socket? Does mailcow require access to it? Why? And how it is bad?

Or, you can keep your VPS running 24/7, with mailcow.email for your emails, immich.app for your photos, nextcloud for your calendar and contacts. Use a second SMTP relay as a backup, they will receive your emails if your main SMTP is down for more than one week, which is the procedure.

Have a look at mailcow. Been running it in a VPS for several years now and it's very reliable.

Google Search → Whoogle

Google Search → Whoogle

You know what this community needs? Our own community whoogle server.