MI
- Category
- Email · Self-host
- Cost
- Self-host
- Country
- US
- Licensing
- FOSS
# PROS AND CONS
+ what works
- +One-command installer produces a working mail server with sane defaults
- +Bundles webmail (Roundcube), contacts and calendar (Nextcloud), and a control panel
- +Automatic Let's Encrypt, DNS, DKIM, SPF, DMARC, and DNSSEC out of the box
- +Code is CC0 public domain, no vendor lock-in
− watch out for
- −Single-box design only, no built-in high availability or horizontal scaling
- −Locked to a specific Ubuntu LTS (22.04 as of v75); upgrades follow the project's schedule
- −Opinionated stack, customizing components is explicitly discouraged
- −Effectively a one-maintainer project, so release pacing depends on one person's bandwidth
# PRIVACY NOTES
Self-hosting keeps message data on a VPS or machine you control, with no vendor in the loop. Mail-in-a-Box does not phone home and stores nothing off the box. Operational privacy depends on the operator picking a host they trust, keeping the OS patched, and handling backups responsibly. The installer ships a working DNS, DKIM, SPF, DMARC, and DNSSEC setup by default, which removes a class of common self-hosting mistakes.
# REPLACES
gmail
# TAGS
#postfix · #dovecot · #nextcloud · #roundcube · #foss · #cc0
# DOES THIS WORK FOR YOU
# NOTES FROM PEOPLE WHO TRIED IT
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first.