Ask HN: Which self-hosted email solution do you use?

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There is enough to choose from these days apparently (kolab/indimail/modoboa/more manual setups like sovereign). I don't really have time nor am I savvy enough to evaluate them all and figure out which one suits me best. Ideally I'd just install something, tell it what my domain is and add a single email-adress and then have instant 'everything' ready without having to crawl through tons of config files.

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IMO, "self hosted email solution" is, to a first approximation, somewhat an oxymoron. An email server is a target, email is a commodity, and there are significant economies of scale: 1 or 100 users require about the same amount of administrative work.

Good luck.

Debian. Postfix. Dovecot.

What are you looking for relative to what Gmail offers? It lets you specify a domain and have instant 'everything' ready.

What are you looking for relative to what Gmail offers?

Just the idea I can host it myself, I guess. All the NSA/Prism stuff also plays a role. Last time I set up Postfix/Dovecot/Spamassassin etc it took me a while to get it working properly and I'm still not even sure it is really secure (let alone I can define what 'secure' would be).

What makes you think postfix is safe from prying eyes?

WHM/CPanel based hosting has/does it for you. Advantage - you're in full control, just rent server with WHM/CPanel and setup everything with a few clicks.

DNS, sites, access, self-hosted email if you want.

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