Good mail server for selfhosting
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Another vote for Mailcow-dockerized. Used it for about 5 years now and never had a problem.
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https://mxtoolbox.com/ will help a lot with making sure you're configured correctly.
And look at Mailcow if you're nervous about setting up another server, it's bulletproof and mature.
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I miss the old days, before you had to worry about spam.
I'm not OP, and I have everything set up fine now; Mailcow would replace what I currently have with the same software components, so I don't see any value there - for myself.
Something like Maddy is completely at odds with the Unix philosophy, and yet I've fought enough with postfix to dislike it enough to want to try an all-in-one. I dread the DKIM setup, though; that took so much time, and the mail server configuration wasn't the hard part. Maybe now I've got it configured for my domains, switching email server software will be easier.
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Yeah, all the threads I came across when I looked into this were like "Self host everything! Except email" so I haven't looked into it.
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Mailcow was effortless and I've never had to intervene in the stack. And after 20 years of fighting postfix and dovecot, that was a pleasant change. I can see why you'd want to try something different, but don't expect it to be easy.
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This has been said over and over again. I have been hosting Mail now for over 2 years and have yet to encounter any problems. Although, i would not recommend to set it up manually and rather advise to use one of the 'all in one' suggested solutions here in the thread.
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Don't u need a static ipv4 or something? I looked into it a while back even got the point of deploying a docker container but the config was so awful I gave up.
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Same! Okay, not without problems, because running a mailserver isn't maintenance-free. But Mailu has been generally solid and it works with Docker. (And Podman, unofficially.)
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I have used mailinabox.email (I think there is a docker version of it) and am quite happy with it.
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In theory you could use an smtp relay.
Which pulls the messages from the relay and also sends for you.
This way you won't have to fiddle around with IP reputation.But you are still interacting with a cloud service...
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I've been using Maddy for about a year. I haven't had any complaints, although my use case is very basic (running on bare metal, with just a handful of inboxes). DKIM is never pleasant but the Maddy configuration is straightforward enough.
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Thank you. I may try it; postfix seems to give me grief ever other update, like they can't leave the damned config file alone.
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It would be more reliable to use a 'clean' not blacklisted static IP.
But in theory you could just use ddns and update the IP. But I actually never tried it.
Mailcow comes ready out of the box. Just change the DNS entries according to Mailcow and you are good to go.
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Can't beat Mox: https://www.xmox.nl/
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Extremely.
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I've heard that using ddns for mail gets u into all sorts of IP blacklisting issues. I don't even have a non cgnat iv4 and I'm not sure if email can work with an ipv6 only
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Yes thats why i said in theory. I doubt that many residential IPs are blacklisted, but still not optimal.
IPv6 only works but there are probably many Mail Servers that are IPv4 only, so you will not receive mails from them.
If you are serious about it, rent a VPS or get a static IP on your residential connection.
