Re:Ask HN: Are you aware of a sane path to selfhosted email ...
by bosch_mind on Friday June 07, 2024 @10:13PM
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Did this for several months. People over talk about how hard it is with no experience doing it. Honestly, it’s a piece of cake.
The downside is that it’s time consuming because like any system, you must maintain and update it.
I self hosted mailcow on a VPS with a service similar to sendgrid and Postmark (forgetting the same now) for outbound email to avoid the blacklisted IP problem.
For inbound routing, I used Cloudflare DNS and setup aliases in Mailcow (nice UI). You can use any client you want against your mail server. It’s just an IP and a port (or domain).
I did it for awhile because I was already selfhosting a lot. However, 6 months in I was like.. I need to go outside, I’m tired of debugging mail problems. Back to Gmail. Maybe there is a happier middle ground
The downside is that it’s time consuming because like any system, you must maintain and update it.
I self hosted mailcow on a VPS with a service similar to sendgrid and Postmark (forgetting the same now) for outbound email to avoid the blacklisted IP problem.
For inbound routing, I used Cloudflare DNS and setup aliases in Mailcow (nice UI). You can use any client you want against your mail server. It’s just an IP and a port (or domain).
I did it for awhile because I was already selfhosting a lot. However, 6 months in I was like.. I need to go outside, I’m tired of debugging mail problems. Back to Gmail. Maybe there is a happier middle ground