Re:Poste.io – Complete Mail Server
by andix on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @05:01PM
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No, that kind of software optimizes a very important problem. It’s quite cumbersome to set up all components of a mail server by yourself. At some point you start hosting a domain for a friend. Then then friend wants to create some mailboxes, forwardings and so on by themselves. So you just give them SSH and tell them to edit the postfix config? Having a web interface that does it all and doesn’t break things is very important.
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This problem is solvable without a web interface: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man5/dot-qmail.5...
How many people understand that man page, and how many people understand a web interface? I think it’s a clear winner.
I hate to be an elitist jerk, but if you can't understand a man page describing a single file format then maybe running an email service is something best outsourced.
I hate to be an elitist jerk, but how am I going to teach my mum to get her email using THAT?!
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It is usually not the same people who run it and who create users. You don’t want to bother the admin every time you add a new email address.
But an admin UI is more than just for creating mailboxes. It can also manage quotas, the spam filter, provide setup instructions for the end users, …
Who does this...?
Giving out free email addresses to friends and family? Me.
Hey, we are starting this charity and need email for 15 people, what should we do? - order domain, create admin-account in the web interface, pass it on, done.