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How does it compare to iRedMail?

http://www.iredmail.org

Does it support multiple domains?

As corv mentioned in another comment, the goal of Mail-in-a-Box is a little different from iRedMail. I'm trying to build something closer to a one-click email appliance that eventually anyone might be able to use, rather than a setup for sysadmins. [I'm the guy behind the project.]

I'm curious why you didn't base this on Kolab [0]? It looks like you share a lot of common components [1], but they've already done the integration work and added additional features.

[0] http://kolab.org/ [1] http://kolab.org/sites/kolab.org/files/u51/KolabServer-Compo... vs https://mailinabox.email/static/architecture.svg

I'm trying to build a system that is simple and auditable. Mail-in-a-Box is also really a system configuration project and not a project to build a better UI. So the goals are very different.

For instance on auditing, from looking at Kolab's source code I have no idea what kind of security settings are used. In Mail-in-a-Box I try to make these sorts of things clear and highly commented in the setup script.

iRedMail has been around much longer. Mailinabox has a simple admin web-interface to add users whereas iRedMail charges $400 for a web-interface. iRedMail also doesn't include z-push (i.e. push mail). Edit: Mailinabox does support multiple domains, by default it will only use itself as DNS which currently does not support backup DNS.

iRedMail also provides a simple web interface for user and domain management, the 400$ option is for buying the advanced UI.

To add to the fray: https://yunohost.org/ is an option too for easy install and setup of a mail server - there was a recent HN item on them a while back. Been using it for a month or two and it's worked great so far. Needs Debian. Supports multiple domains.

I keep forgetting Yunohost can do that. Is there a guide to setting up email services?

I had good experience with Citadel for an internal mail solution. It's a little old fashioned, but good enough for our needs. The setup was especially easy with the default ubuntu packages.

I'm also testing citadel for a small team, the issue is that I can't get thunderbird/lightning to sync the calendar with citadel, email works fine, will be checking kolab soon

Just FYI, we are not using the calendaring system from Citadel; so can't give any report for that.

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