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I'm contemplating taking control of my email by moving away from mainstream providers like Gmail or Outlook. What self-hosted email services have you tried, and which ones do you find most reliable and user-friendly? Are there any challenges or advantages you've encountered in making the switch?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

On-Prem Exchange Server. Way better than anything else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use postfix, dovecot and snappymail. Very happy.

I already had a well-configured postfix (DKIM, DMARC) for web applications, so adding dovecot was easy. It's also really powerful, you can define who gets mailboxes in scripts. I tried going with providers but I couldn't get this kind of power.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Self hosting with mailcow.

Alternatively proton.me

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

3rd for MIAB. I use Linode. I believe most ISP's restrict access to mail ports so running at home is probably not possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is a generalization that not useful to keep repeating. Better advice would be check to be sure YOUR ISP allows access to the ports you need.