rspamd has worked wonderfully for me. It’s operated more or less on the same level as iCloud, Gmail, or Outlook. I feel articles like this overstate the burden

rspamd has worked wonderfully for me. It’s operated more or less on the same level as iCloud, Gmail, or Outlook. I feel articles like this overstate the burden. I can agree that running a self-hosted server at scale (multi tenant/multi user) could be very painful and would be a full time job. But if it’s a single user (you), it’s almost set it and forget it. Many resources out there to test your mail server is configured correctly (ie, mailtester). The only painful issues I have had: - if using a “dynamic” IP from a VPS host. You might find that many RBLs block them by default. It’s somewhat easy to get it reset though, and have only had to do it twice (cloudmark and outlook). - occasionally have to deal with obvious brute force attempts to find vulnerable accounts. But this is resolved with fail2ban and setting up alerts on postfix and dovecot logs Also, compared to the old days. There are many projects that make it stupid simple to setup a mail server with sane defaults. Current projects I am watching: - stalw.art - docker mail server I have been considering stalwart. Especially since there are plans to add in CalDAV (Calendar), and CardDAV (Contacts) support. I was previously looking at Cyrus IMAP for this functionality but will ultimately wait/support stalwart for the AIO solution.