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Good mail server for selfhosting (lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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So I'm migrating stuff from my old server to a new provider and only thing left is email.

The problem is I used luke smith's emailwiz script ( the script and setup itself isn't a problem ) because it uses system users for managing users with dovecot and friends to setup a mail server.

So now I'm looking for a new email server to selfhost (preferably docker/podman) that in the future I can easilly migrate.Would also love if somebody has a reccomendation on how I could backuo and import emails from the old server.

NOTE: I use caddy as webserver, so the server should have a simple way on getting ssl certs, or abikity to easilly make use if caddy one's.

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's a bit unconventional maybe, but I vote simple-nixos-mailserver - IF you are curious / willing to learn nix. It's essentially just sanely configured dovecot, postfix, rspamd.

My config for those three combined is about 15 lines, and I have never had an issue with them. Slap on another 5-10 lines for Roundcube as a webmail client.

Since it's Nix, everything is declarative, so should SOMETHING happen to the server, you can be up and running again super quickly, with the exact same setup.

[–] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I use nixos on my desktop, the server is a debian one but might be good to install nix on it.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago

In that case I can really highly recommend it. Nixos on the server is fantastic anyways, and the only hurdle to recommending simple-nixos-mailserver is that most people are not familiar with nix... 😄