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Good mail server for selfhosting (lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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So I'm migrating stuff from my old server to a new provider and only thing left is email.

The problem is I used luke smith's emailwiz script ( the script and setup itself isn't a problem ) because it uses system users for managing users with dovecot and friends to setup a mail server.

So now I'm looking for a new email server to selfhost (preferably docker/podman) that in the future I can easilly migrate.Would also love if somebody has a reccomendation on how I could backuo and import emails from the old server.

NOTE: I use caddy as webserver, so the server should have a simple way on getting ssl certs, or abikity to easilly make use if caddy one's.

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://mxtoolbox.com/ will help a lot with making sure you're configured correctly.

And look at Mailcow if you're nervous about setting up another server, it's bulletproof and mature.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I miss the old days, before you had to worry about spam.

I'm not OP, and I have everything set up fine now; Mailcow would replace what I currently have with the same software components, so I don't see any value there - for myself.

Something like Maddy is completely at odds with the Unix philosophy, and yet I've fought enough with postfix to dislike it enough to want to try an all-in-one. I dread the DKIM setup, though; that took so much time, and the mail server configuration wasn't the hard part. Maybe now I've got it configured for my domains, switching email server software will be easier.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Mailcow was effortless and I've never had to intervene in the stack. And after 20 years of fighting postfix and dovecot, that was a pleasant change. I can see why you'd want to try something different, but don't expect it to be easy.