Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email

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Mail-in-a-box

I "sort of" hosted my own email using Sendgrid API free tier to send and webhook to receive, and a custom client in a Python MPA. I was chuffed I wasn't paying 5 a month for GSuite. I looked later at, and set up, https://mailinabox.email/ and that worked fine too. I'm not sure about all the can't, it's definitely possible and I never had an issue with deliverability. I had no idea what I was doing but I made sure I got all the right dkim secret and signing keys or whatever it was required set up to for both solutions. I was not sending mail merges though so maybe that would have thrown things off I don't know.

#Email #Self-hosted Email #Email Service Provider 115 social mentions

2

mailcow

I've been runnning mailcow[1] on a small Hetzner vserver for a bit more than 4 years with minimal downtime and maintenance. I followed their guides for the most optimal setup, and so far I feel deliverability has been comparable to commercial offerings. Can certainly recommend. [1] https://mailcow.email/.

#Email #Self-hosted Email #Email Service Provider 82 social mentions

3

Firefox Relay

There are plenty of services that allows that. One is Apple's [Hide My Email](https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/what-you-can-do-with-icloud-and-hide-my-email-mme38e1602db/1.0/icloud/1.0) and Firefox's [Relay](https://relay.firefox.com/).

#Email #Fake Email #Disposable Email 83 social mentions

4

Posteo

There are sane email providers who do exactly this, for example Posteo — see question "Is there a spam folder" here: https://posteo.de/en.

#Email #Email Clients #Enterprise Communication 15 social mentions

5

YunoHost

#Control Panels #Cloud Computing #Hosting 73 social mentions