For those using one, how would you rate the difficulty of setting up a self-hosted e-mail server?

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  • SimpleLogin

    The SimpleLogin back-end and web app (by simple-login)

    Instead of fully hosting myself, i have a VM on AWS that runs https://github.com/simple-login/app and then forwards emails to my gmail. Then when i reply to those emails, it appears to be coming from my simple login alias as well. It's a great app

  • docker-mailserver

    Production-ready fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) running inside a container.

  • InfluxDB

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  • docker-mailserver

    Discontinued A fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) using Docker. [Moved to: https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver] (by tomav)

    However... For a live fire, in production setup I would push people to use a meta package like docker-mailserver, mailcow, mail-in-a-box or modoboa as it's better to have someone else set the sane defaults to prevent you from missing that one line in you config.

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