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Do any of us host their own email? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have been thinking of completely going off Google. I have a Nextcloud server for documents and contacts and calendar. Thinking of moving mail away too. Currently I am conflicted between hosting my own email server. On searching only advice I am getting is not to do it.

How many of the homelabers do host their own email server? What software do you use? Any tips.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exim and Dovecot. With a clean IP on a VPS and SPF, DKIM and DMARC I haven't really encountered any problems yet. Though I'm only doing it for about 2 years.

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

This is the way. Exim is far easier to config than Postfix, which is what I'm using now. I'd run Exim before for years, but thought I'd try Postfix since it's the popular kid. It was a mistake, but everything is running and stable, and... well, sunk costs is keeping me from reconfiguring my set-up.

It's a bit of effort to get everything configured correctly in any case, because of the number of moving parts. SPF and DMARC on the DNS entries, dovecot, Postfix or Exim, and a spam manager. Spam management consumes a huge amount of resources.

It really is the only way, though.