Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Emails Service?

3 pointsposted a year ago
by max_

Item id: 41628744

10 Comments

sgt

a year ago

Self hosted - I went for mailu and it's very good:

https://mailu.io/

I didn't enable its Webmail feature though, so I have no idea if it's good or not. I just use Mail on iOS and macOS.

maremmano

a year ago

I'm using mailinabox.email without problems. It's great.

downrightmike

a year ago

Friends don't let friends self host email

max_

a year ago

Sorry I don't understand this

Iulioh

a year ago

The first rule of email is reliability, your home server tends to have a higher downtime than Gmail and it's more hassle than it's worth

If you want to get fancy get a domain and a 3th party to host it, self hosting is really unadvisable.

yanko

a year ago

Any downtime us covered by backup mx somewhere

sgt

a year ago

It's the common (mis)conception that self hosting email is impossible. That's not true though. Better be careful with your IP reputation but aside from that, it's definitely possible. I've been self hosting e-mail since 2000.

icedchai

a year ago

Same. I've been self hosting since the early 90's, starting with a UUCP feed. Over the years, I've used smail, sendmail, qmail, postfix...

user

a year ago

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