Ask HN: What Mail Server Do You Use?

Posted by coreyja on Saturday August 24, 2013 @03:56AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hey Hackers,

I am looking to move some of my personal projects and portfolio site from WebFaction over to DigitalOcean. Right now I use WebFactions mail servers for a few of my custom domains.

And was wondering what you guys use for mail servers. Do you use a hosted mail server, or do you host your own? Free, Paid or open source? Any recommendations for a small scale email server to use?

Thanks guys!

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Re:Ask HN: What Mail Server Do You Use? by jacquesm on Saturday August 24, 2013 @04:13AM (#6268072)

I use postfix, self hosted with some outside assistance.

Yesterday swombat pointed this out to me:

https://github.com/al3x/sovereign

There might be something in there for you.

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Re:Ask HN: What Mail Server Do You Use? by coreyja on Saturday August 24, 2013 @06:59AM (#6268305)

Ya that project looks awesome. There are a few things he has I don't think I will run, but I think I'll start with it and go from there. Thanks man.

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Re:Ask HN: What Mail Server Do You Use? by smagch on Saturday August 24, 2013 @05:57AM (#6268221)

Mandrill gives you 12000 free email transaction per month. On top of that, they offer integration with MailChimp. Therefore, I recommend mandrill!

http://mandrill.com/

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Re:Ask HN: What Mail Server Do You Use? by pdfcollect on Sunday August 25, 2013 @12:28PM (#6272552)

Anyone knows if something like this exists for python?

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Re:Ask HN: What Mail Server Do You Use? by coreyja on Sunday September 01, 2013 @11:38PM (#6313358)

Sorry for the late response. But from looking at the Madrill site, it looks like the API is a RESTful API so you should be able to use it with Python. And also should be possible to build a Python wrapper for it.

EDIT: And as I clicked on another link, it looks like they already have a Python wrapper built. Check out https://mandrillapp.com/api/docs/index.python.html

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Re:Ask HN: What Mail Server Do You Use? by jdn on Saturday August 24, 2013 @04:12AM (#6268068)

Dovecot on an Arch DigitalOcean droplet. Then pull the mail into GMail for ease of use and because I don't trust my own sys-admin skills not to blow up in my face.

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Re:Ask HN: What Mail Server Do You Use? by mcmak on Saturday August 24, 2013 @01:19PM (#6269183)

Do you pay anything for the gmail integration?

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Re:Ask HN: What Mail Server Do You Use? by jdn on Monday August 26, 2013 @01:15PM (#6278357)

No, you can add POP3 accounts to Gmail

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Re:Ask HN: What Mail Server Do You Use? by Liongadev on Saturday August 24, 2013 @08:57AM (#6268520)

http://www.hmailserver.com/ works really well

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Re:Ask HN: What Mail Server Do You Use? by blakdawg on Sunday August 25, 2013 @02:01AM (#6271082)

Postfix. Self-hosted for privacy/confidentiality.

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