what to use for self hosting email

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  • Mail-in-a-Box

    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.

  • mailinabox.email works great on a basic vps.

  • maddy

    ✉️ Composable all-in-one mail server.

  • I've been using maddy mail server as it's quick and easy to setup for over a year now

  • InfluxDB

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  • docker-mailserver-helm

    Kubernetes Helm chart for docker-mailserver

  • I host my email server together with a couple of other things on a small VPS (2 vCores and 2GB) with docker-mailserver. The storage space you need is completely dependant on how much you use your email address, with Gmail you get 15GB so if that's enough 25GB will be fine.

  • Mailu

    Insular email distribution - mail server as Docker images

  • Mailu is pretty solid for personal use and is lighter on memory than Mailcow

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