If privacy is the concern, I recommend checking out tutanota.com and Protonmail. Neither are self-hosted solutions, but they'll give you the ability to use your domain, have an org and both have good (proprietary) Android/iOS clients.
Ask HN: What is the best option for hosting your own mailserver?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the best option for hosting your own mailserver?
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am setting up mail for my business. I do not want to go the gmail route. I also happen to have a VPS server free to use. I have seen the occasional gmail alternative threads and the more rare self hosted mail threads here on HN. Maybe I have been swayed by the arguments in those threads ;) . I wanted to know if there is a stable mail server that I can run on my own machine, without putting too much effort after the…
> I do not want to go the gmail route. I have no horse in this race, but I'm curious about why you wouldn't want to use GSuite or whatever they're calling it now. It's a really solid offering, especially for the price.
Probably not having your data on us soil, privacy, ethics (not giving Google more money/data than you have to)
Re: Ask HN: What is the best option for hosting your own mailserver?
#23We have been using https://cloudron.io/ on our startup for about two years now. It works very well. I recommend it!
Re: Ask HN: What is the best option for hosting your own mailserver?
#24As you mention in another comment that it's for your business and you don't want to spend time maintaining it once it's running I'd strongly suggest not to go that route and pay someone to do the work for you. If you do it for your personal email, experimenting around is probably fine for a while but for a business working email is mission critical. Mails getting stuck in filters somewhere, clients not seeing your em…
Tutanota is a pretty good deal, and it's open source, so that's neat. You get the bonus that all internal communication can be encrypted.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best option for hosting your own mailserver?
#25I have been using https://iredmail.com/ for five and a half years. The only issue I have had, is fail2ban being slightly more aggressive than needed.