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Ask HN: How are you hosting email at your domain name?
This could be your personal professional email (i.e. you@yourpersonalsite.com) or your company's email (i.e. you@yourcompany.com). I am only interested in web-based or self-hosted Linux solutions (so that rules out Microsoft Exchange).
I've considered hosting with Google Apps. I've seen a number of notable hackers go that route. But I'm not sure I want to give up that much privacy and control. I've searched for some self-hosting Linux solutions (free or paid), and I wasn't impressed with the results I found.
Thanks in advance.
- Rust 16y agoExim for SMTP, Courier for POP3 and/or IMAP, and SquirrelMail or RoundCube for the web front-end - all available for Linux. It's good enough for cPanel, so it's good enough for me. Edit: Incidentally, it should be noted that all email is "web-based" these days...
- billpaetzke 16y agoRe: web-based Yeah, I guess I meant 3rd-party-hosted.
- twapi 16y agogo with Google Apps: easy to install , Free and featured :)
- findm 16y agousing google apps too.
- trafficlight 16y agoI have a couple of domains at Google Apps, which works really well. I also have a couple of domains at my local ISP (also my colocation facility).
- nfnaaron 16y agopair.com has worked very well for me, for ten years or so. It's freebsd shared hosting, but if you're willing to consider gapps this is reasonable too. Includes two or three web interfaces, as well as imap.
- hga 16y agoFocused email service providers like Fastmail.fm (just acquired by Opera, which is directing would be new customers of Opera Premium? Email to it) are one good solution. If you want good spam and virus scanning protection you probably want to outsource it in one way or another.
- dzlobin 16y agoOur website runs on heroku so we use rackspace hosted email. I recommend it
- papertiger 16y agoI use rackspace hosted email as well. Very happy with it.
- rmc 16y agoI use postfix for SMTP and dovecote for IMAP. All free software. There's a million guides for setting it up and for fixing issues. There's also a million different ways to tweak it to do anything you want.
- gexla 16y agoGoogle apps or a local server like Postfix relaying outgoing email through a service such as AuthSMTP. Deliverability is a PITA otherwise. You have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get email providers to accept your email if using a dedicated solution (including VPS) and if it's a shared server then you are at the mercy of other users who could be spamming people from the same IP and get it blacklisted.
- whimsy 16y agoI have my e-mail hosted on a prgmr.com VPS. How do I check for deliverability issues? (I have noticed none.)