tlk VS Mailcow

- everything proxied with caddy

just today i set up miniflux and https://github.com/vasanthv/talk

i look forward to hearing about new projects that i can deploy to improve my friends' lives; i hear about them here

but it's not even just what you've encouraged me to do: once i had my server working i became consumed by the idea that i could do it all myself, so i started to try to self-host email. you all helped encourage me to give up that nightmare and just pay a real company to do it for me

this points at maybe what i'm most thankful for: i have a much deeper and more sophisticated understanding of the technology stack i interact with at any given time. even if i'm not "in control", at least knowing how i'm not in control gives a sense of security

more than that, i'm able to impress my nephew, a supposed computer genius, by simply regurgitating the latest talking points from HN. maybe this is the most valuable benefit i've derived so far....

one of the other things i've done is to self-host a ghost installation for the benefit of my friends, john and borka. they basically live like monks for the benefit of the preservation of the amazon rainforest. with HN's help, i have been able to set them up with a website:

https://RioMomon.rhizoma.zone

sometimes at this time of year people look for something to which to donate. the nice thing about rio momon is that all of the money goes directly towards the mission (web hosting & web dev costs, for example, are borne by me -- and i am able to do it easily, because HN taught me)

thank you!

I'm not sure if it's the same person but love your project talk! Running it myself :)

Looks like it's at https://github.com/vasanthv/talk

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

I have been searching for a self-hosted suite similar to Google Worksuite. I found the following: 1. Mailcow - 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).

I've heard good things about mailcow

https://mailcow.email/

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.