Ask HN: What Mail Server Do You Use?

9 points·coreyja··10 comments

Hey Hackers,

I am looking to move some of my personal projects and portfolio site from WebFaction over to DigitalOcean. Right now I use WebFactions mail servers for a few of my custom domains.

And was wondering what you guys use for mail servers. Do you use a hosted mail server, or do you host your own? Free, Paid or open source? Any recommendations for a small scale email server to use?

Thanks guys!

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I use postfix, self hosted with some outside assistance.

Yesterday swombat pointed this out to me:

https://github.com/al3x/sovereign

There might be something in there for you.

Ya that project looks awesome. There are a few things he has I don't think I will run, but I think I'll start with it and go from there. Thanks man.

Mandrill gives you 12000 free email transaction per month. On top of that, they offer integration with MailChimp. Therefore, I recommend mandrill!

http://mandrill.com/

Anyone knows if something like this exists for python?

Sorry for the late response. But from looking at the Madrill site, it looks like the API is a RESTful API so you should be able to use it with Python. And also should be possible to build a Python wrapper for it.

EDIT: And as I clicked on another link, it looks like they already have a Python wrapper built. Check out https://mandrillapp.com/api/docs/index.python.html

Dovecot on an Arch DigitalOcean droplet. Then pull the mail into GMail for ease of use and because I don't trust my own sys-admin skills not to blow up in my face.

Do you pay anything for the gmail integration?

No, you can add POP3 accounts to Gmail

http://www.hmailserver.com/ works really well

Postfix. Self-hosted for privacy/confidentiality.

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