Post #1128514
2026-04-13 06:25 UTC
@mason@partychickens.net @Paul_Taylor@mathstodon.xyz I have been self-hosting e-mail for myself and a few small non-profits, and the amount of expertise to do that (for like ~10 mailboxes at 5 domains) is just frustratingly high. I have to administer Postfix, Dovecot, LDAP, DNS on a VPS; implement DMARC, DKIM, SPF etc. Nothing I can't do, but it adds up, and I'm never sure if I got i right.
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@hopeless@mas.to 2026-04-13 08:18
@eudoxos@witter.cz @mason@partychickens.net @Paul_Taylor@mathstodon.xyz I also run my own email... there are a lot of hoops to jump through but 1) it tends to need no ongoing maintenance once it's working, 2) There are a lot of free services for checking eg DNS, SPF an so on from outside that help. I agree it's not easy and feels like it could and should be easier.
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@eudoxos@witter.cz 2026-04-13 06:27
@mason @Paul_Taylor Open-source community has not been much productive there. I don''t really trust Mailcow (essentially what I do but containerized), and Stalwart is "open-source" but start pay the moment you need more domains. I wish there were full-featured fork of Stalwart removing those nonsense restrictions.