Selfhosted mail

[levi]

Wanted to get peoples opinions on whether it is worth to selfhost main in 2026? Ive had problems with spam filters but other than that its great. What do you have to say?

[odie]

It's doable but I think it is a lot of effort and there might be lots of issues you can encounter. Email is very important to me so I gave it into the hands of professionals.

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Same as odie here, I was thinking about it, but just can't have it ending up in spam boxes and being down, in case at that right time I miss something very important.

I use Proton mail for personal and MXroute for business emails, MXroute is especially great as it's very affordable and has little constraints on space/users/domains.

[odie]

I can recommend mailbox.org. The owner is a well known and respected expert, location is in Germany and prices are very good.

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I can recommend mailbox.org. The owner is a well known and respected expert, location is in Germany and prices are very good.

That's very good to know, I'll also keep this one in mind just in case!

[nomachi]

I've tried to set up my own mail server, but so much public mail providers have different rules and whatnot, ended up being much more headache than it's worth. I use mailgun for my projects now.

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Yeah and I would really really like to self host an email server in the end, but that is a whole next level, confirmed

Perhaps at one point, I might do it just for fun

[Linus]

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It seems like everyone on the whole internet agrees that self hosted e-mail is not doable, or not worth the hassle.

I think it's totally worth it, but I think it's best to self host mail and use an external provider as an SMTP relay. So use Stalwart (https://stalw.art/) or Mailcow (https://mailcow.email/), but use Migadu/Purelymail/MXroute or any other service to help you out with the delivery.

Using Mailcow to host a few clients/friends e-mail since a few years without any trouble. But will move everyone to Stalward as soon as they release a proper Webmail.

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Just saw that there's a forum available. Great work Avatar

It seems like everyone on the whole internet agrees that self hosted e-mail is not doable, or not worth the hassle.

I think it's totally worth it, but I think it's best to self host mail and use an external provider as an SMTP relay. So use Stalwart (https://stalw.art/) or Mailcow (https://mailcow.email/), but use Migadu/Purelymail/MXroute or any other service to help you out with the delivery.

Using Mailcow to host a few clients/friends e-mail since a few years without any trouble. But will move everyone to Stalward as soon as they release a proper Webmail.

Thank you Linus, and good to see you join us!

Interesting, I didn't know about Stalward and the whole idea you can use other services to help with delivery!

[GentleMyth]

Wanted to get peoples opinions on whether it is worth to selfhost main in 2026? Ive had problems with spam filters but other than that its great. What do you have to say?

I use a self hosted mail server for notifications, but i don't use it for anything important. It was quite a bit of work to get that through the spam filters, though.

I don't completely blame the mail providers though.... there are a lot of spammers who email.