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Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently? (news.idlestate.org)

submitted 3 days ago by azdle@news.idlestate.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I tried maybe 15 years ago and it went about as well as you'd expect for back then. But I'm starting to get the itch again.

Have any of you tried relatively recently? How impossible is it to get reliable deliverability to gmail and whatnot these days?

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

I did mailinabox for a bit. Worked well but spam made me stop.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 3 days ago

Yes. Using simple-nixos-mailserver as the foundation.

Really great experience, and have had no deliverability issues.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes I do host my email myself since tens of years.

No I do not self-host it at home

See here https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=email%3Astart (disclaimer: my wiki)

[–] sznowicki@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Good read. Now I want to do it too.

I'll add your blog to my small search engine I you don't mind (kukei.eu)

Also, you don't need that cookie prompt. If you only use technical cookies and no tracking, no consent needed.

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[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I recently set up the whole stack (Postfix, Dovecot, OpenDKIM) on a VPS. I wanted to do it from home, but my ISP won't provide a static IP or open ports 25/465/587 for consumer customers, no exceptions.

It took me about two days to get everything working, but most of that was because I went in with very little knowledge of how email even actually works. If you're looking for a learning experience, I'd say go for it. If you just want a working email setup quickly, I wouldn't recommend it.

I haven't noticed any deliverability issues so far. Just make sure you have SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and PTR records all set correctly from the start.

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[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I host my mail with mailcow and it is almost set and forget. I only had a couple issues with some mail providers, but a small email exchange with the admins cleared that up.

Have a handful of users, that have not complained about anything not working or spam or whatever 🤷‍♂️

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yes. Just today. And every day of the last 26 years. GMail delivery is no big deal. but outlook freaks out in ways I just don't care to solve.

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