Subj : Rolling your own email on linux in 2026
To   : Bryn Hopkins
From : Enric Lleal Serra
Date : Fri Sep 11 2026 12:21 pm

Hi Bryn,

> Starting to put together all of my stuff on self-hosting, and while file

Good point.

>email is something that certainly I want to do, but I question how well advise

Yes. This is a critical point.

By default, setting up from the scratch (and maintain) a production mail server 
for my day-by-day need had been a pain in the ass.

It's not only how you deploy, configure, and maintain the whole setup.

It's also critical the related to your connectivity (who is your ISP and what 
kind of IP do you have (static or dynamic)). 

I was using the old (Ivar Abrahamsen) Flurdy's guide[1] for many years, since I 
switched to Mail-in-a-Box[2] and finally go to Mailcow[3].

Flurdy's guide is a step-by-step guide, useful to learn, difficult to be 
production usable with 100% guarantees. Mail-in-a-Box is an easy way to get up
& ready. MailCow is an enterprise grade mail server.


[1] https://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/ [2] https://mailinabox.email/
[3] https://mailcow.email/


A reveure!!
Enric





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