I’m contemplating taking control of my email by moving away from mainstream providers like Gmail or Outlook. What self-hosted email services have you tried, and which ones do you find most reliable and user-friendly? Are there any challenges or advantages you’ve encountered in making the switch?

  • wyrmroot@programming.devEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Rather than self host, I switched to Protonmail. I use a custom domain with catchall addresses enabled, so I can have an arbitrary number of email addresses grouped by what service it relates to, along with plenty of filtering and organization rules. So far it’s been nothing but upside, honestly.

  • NassielBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Maddy self hosted + Blue mail as client for phone. But be ready to be DMARC compliant :) not difficult just annoying.

  • ThutexBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    self hosted mailserver here (on an old, dedicated vps)… just dovecot/postfix/mysql and the usual (amavis & spamassasin) - if i need to add/edit/delete users or domains, that’s just a bash script.

    there’s lots of other options already mentioned, but you could also consider aws for this: you set your domain up with them (or verify it), set SES to forward inbound mails to wherever you want, and set your mailclient to send out through ses.

    antispam & dkim/dmarc/spf included.

  • jamesthethirteenthBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I use postfix, dovecot and snappymail. Very happy.

    I already had a well-configured postfix (DKIM, DMARC) for web applications, so adding dovecot was easy. It’s also really powerful, you can define who gets mailboxes in scripts. I tried going with providers but I couldn’t get this kind of power.