[HN Gopher] Exploring Self-Hosted Email Services
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       Exploring Self-Hosted Email Services
        
       Author : mooreds
       Score  : 49 points
       Date   : 2023-11-29 06:27 UTC (16 hours ago)
        
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       | johnklos wrote:
       | "Data at Rest matters."
       | 
       | You bet it does. If you care about the security of your data, run
       | your own server and use the VPS simply for its public IP.
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       | It's a good, lengthy article with lots of meat.
        
       | 2Gkashmiri wrote:
       | agree for the most part but i dont like the execution.
       | 
       | please use maininabox or something similar. it is also selfhosted
       | and foss but you update it in one click and has 6 monthly 10
       | minutes updation.
       | 
       | i have been using miab for over 3 years now. extremely satisfied
       | with the result.
        
         | XiS wrote:
         | Long time miab user here, recently switched to MailCow to make
         | my host a run docker stack only (no more vms). Also, mail
         | search on non email body finally is fast. Much love for MIAB
         | still though.
         | 
         | Self-Hosting email isn't that hard as it used to be (as long as
         | you don't have to deliver to MS)
        
       | Ayesh wrote:
       | Great read. I miss these kinds of articles, compared to the "use
       | this Docker image that has everything pre-configured" articles so
       | common today.
       | 
       | There's a much higher sense of achievement when putting things
       | together with deliberate configuration and sorting out how to
       | glue things together.
        
       | jeffbee wrote:
       | At the beginning and at the end, the author mentions
       | deliverability to major providers such as Google as the core
       | outcome, but in between they don't substantively touch upon it.
       | It seems unlikely that the goal was accomplished in a durable and
       | intentional way.
        
         | throw555chip wrote:
         | Near the end:
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         | "In order to deliver email to other mail providers without
         | being marked as spam, I ideally needed to implement all three
         | policy frameworks with the mail server."
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         | Then a few lines later:
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         | "Inbound and outbound message delivery was working."
        
       | throw555chip wrote:
       | I've never used ansible but the article makes me want to consider
       | trying it on my self hosted stuff. I wish I had that article
       | years and years ago, the inclusion of how to configure virtual
       | accounts for email is especially useful to anyone starting out.
        
       | baz00 wrote:
       | I used to run mail server for a large corporation in the late
       | 90s. I always get really excited and nostalgic about running my
       | own mail server when I see these articles. I have a spare domain
       | I use for testing stuff on so occasionally I'll futz with postfix
       | and dovecot for a bit etc and get something working on Vultr or
       | some other cheap VPS. Then I'll spend an hour getting Thunderbird
       | and K-9 working and I'll send and receive a few emails.
       | 
       | Then I'll remember I just spent 6 hours of my Saturday fucking
       | around with it and now have to live with it and maintain it. So I
       | go crawling back to outlook.com like the pathetic corporate whore
       | I am and go and do something less painful the day after.
       | 
       | I'll just keep my private comms off email.
        
       | hardwaresofton wrote:
       | https://vadosware.io/post/its-never-been-easier-or-harder-to...
        
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