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Ask HN: Which self-hosted email solution do you use?
There is enough to choose from these days apparently (kolab/indimail/modoboa/more manual setups like sovereign). I don't really have time nor am I savvy enough to evaluate them all and figure out which one suits me best. Ideally I'd just install something, tell it what my domain is and add a single email-adress and then have instant 'everything' ready without having to crawl through tons of config files.
- brians 12y agoDebian. Postfix. Dovecot. What are you looking for relative to what Gmail offers? It lets you specify a domain and have instant 'everything' ready.
- stinos 12y agoWhat are you looking for relative to what Gmail offers? Just the idea I can host it myself, I guess. All the NSA/Prism stuff also plays a role. Last time I set up Postfix/Dovecot/Spamassassin etc it took me a while to get it working properly and I'm still not even sure it is really secure (let alone I can define what 'secure' would be).
- brianwawok 12y agoWhat makes you think postfix is safe from prying eyes?
- brudgers 12y agoIMO, "self hosted email solution" is, to a first approximation, somewhat an oxymoron. An email server is a target, email is a commodity, and there are significant economies of scale: 1 or 100 users require about the same amount of administrative work. Good luck.
- gesman 12y agoWHM/CPanel based hosting has/does it for you. Advantage - you're in full control, just rent server with WHM/CPanel and setup everything with a few clicks. DNS, sites, access, self-hosted email if you want.