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Back when I was hosting my emails myself, my main complaint was that it required plugging many pieces together, in a traditional Unix fashion. This was before configuration management was really a thing, so it resulted in a Frankenstein setup that worked but was afraid to touch.

If there was a more modern all-in-one-binary solution handling MTA/DKIM/IMAP/webmail with sane defaults I would maybe go back to self hosting.

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mailu.io is an open source alternative to poste.io and bundles a classing email stack in an easy to use package. But it’s still quite complex under the hood. There is also an upcoming project called maddy( https://github.com/emersion/maddy) that tries to package everything in a single binary, written in Go. I’m excited about about this and hope that the good folks that are developing it will take it to a usable state.

> all-in-one-binary solution handling MTA/DKIM/IMAP/webmail

Sounds like a very wrong idea there. One mistake in part of it will crash or get breached in the entire stack. You know why postfix runs many small binaries.

See poste.io, it solves exactly this problem. (I've created poste because I administer multiple smaller mailserevers and thus scratching my own itch)

This is really impressive. Perhaps do a Show HN for it?

I use https://mailinabox.email/ it does pretty much everything for you very easy just host on linode.com.

These guys are selling a box, too: https://thehelm.com

Wish I could learn more about their box. But when I go to the web site I get a giant "Get updates and news from Helm" pop-up that blocks all other content except a sliver of an animation on one side of the screen.

How do I know if I want news and updates from Helm if I can't even find out what Helm does?

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