Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email

• Mail-in-a-Box

  183 13,286 8.8 Python

  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.

  

I "sort of" hosted my own email using Sendgrid API free tier to send and webhook to receive, and a custom client in a Python MPA. I was chuffed I wasn't paying 5 a month for GSuite.

I looked later at, and set up, https://mailinabox.email/ and that worked fine too.

I'm not sure about all the can't, it's definitely possible and I never had an issue with deliverability. I had no idea what I was doing but I made sure I got all the right dkim secret and signing keys or whatever it was required set up to for both solutions.

I was not sending mail merges though so maybe that would have thrown things off I don't know.

• Mailcow

  180 7,931 9.5 JavaScript

  mailcow: dockerized - 🐮 + 🐋 = 💕

  

I've been runnning mailcow[1] on a small Hetzner vserver for a bit more than 4 years with minimal downtime and maintenance.

I followed their guides for the most optimal setup, and so far i feel deliverability has been comparable to commercial offerings.

Can certainly recommend.

[1] https://mailcow.email/

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• fx-private-relay

  178 1,415 9.9 Python

  Keep your email safe from hackers and trackers. Make an email alias with 1 click, and keep your address to yourself.

  

There are plenty of services that allows that. One is Apple's [Hide My Email](https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/what-you-can-do-with-...) and Firefox's [Relay](https://relay.firefox.com/).

• nostr

  23 727 7.5

  Discontinued a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working [Moved to: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr] (by fiatjaf)

  

nostr (https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr) seems to be a minimal possible solution. It doesn't seem to be much in use though, so I guess once that happens a few issues will come up.

• yunohost

  117 1,911 9.5 Python

  YunoHost is an operating system aiming to simplify as much as possible the administration of a server. This repository corresponds to the core code, written mostly in Python and Bash.

  

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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