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Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for personal use?

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Re: Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for personal use?

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Post by bedros »

simon_acca wrote: post #165
jwr wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Email is one of the bastions of the decentralised Internet and we should hang on to it. This. I hope someone will eventually create an "E-mail server in a box" package for Ubuntu LTS, so that more people can run their own E-mail. I'm not saying it has to be super-easy for everyone, just that it should avoid unnecessary chore work (like configuring postfix to always use TLS, or plugging postgrey into postfix).

As long as you know Docker, this is pretty much what you are asking: https://github.com/tomav/docker-mailserver . I use it in combination with the rainloop webmail client: https://github.com/jprjr/docker-rainloop . Everything is configured with a single docker-compose, read about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11748036

that's the difference between rainloop and roundcube?

Re: Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for personal use?

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Post by Spakman »

quonn wrote: post #185
loup-vaillant wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, so cost is the reason why the won't let the email through at all… All those people who mistakenly think email is free… (even gmail is not free: you pay for it by letting them spy on you and sending you targeted ads).

Most people in fact know this and assume they are being tracked everywhere and they also assume that the service providers (Google, Facebook) can read everything. The problem is not that alternatives are too expensive, but that there are no good alternatives. I would be glad to pay $5/month to Google to get an ad-free version.

I disagree that most people know this. I imagine most reasonably technical people do, but I'd be amazed if most people on the street understand any of this.
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