mailrise VS Mail-in-a-Box

Edit: Using AWS SES for now (PITA to setup though) and will setup https://github.com/YoRyan/mailrise as suggested below once I get my full systems back up. After the suggestions and testing, the hardest hurdle was having a VoIP number rather than regular Cell and using without a custom domain (and even different providers handle this differently). Using an email service seems to be one of the easiest methods to use, just have to make sure they allow SMTP access on the free tier. Hopefully the comments on this thread will help other in the future or give them alternative ideas. Thanks all!

I use mailrise which hosts a private SMTP gateway for Apprise notifications.

Link to the repo: https://github.com/YoRyan/mailrise

https://github.com/YoRyan/mailrise might be a decent option.

This project is similar to and inspired by Mailrise. I wanted a little more configuration than was supported by Mailrise, so decided to create my own option.

FYI, a similar system can be achieved with https://github.com/YoRyan/mailrise + https://github.com/caronc/apprise, but requires more setup

I ended up having to build mailrise from source so I could change it to use the nightly build of apprise instead of version 1.1 (which still had the bug). I actually just went back and tested that apprise 1.2 seems to be splitting both markdown and text messages properly for discord. I'll have to build an updated mailrise docker image and try again there. I'll file an issue if I run into problems.

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.