Is catch-all supported? Couldn’t find an answer to that in the FAQ.
Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server
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Re: Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
How did you get around deliverability issues?
From someone else with similar experience: I've been following all best practices to the best of my abilities (rDNS/DMARC/DKIM/SPF/etc). After all that was properly in place, the only problematic receiver was Microsoft (outlook.com/hotmail.com/live.com), which bounced and provided an appeal process. I filled the form, was requested documentation from my ISP on the IP address. I asked my VPS hosting company (since the…
Do you also have any issue with icloud? I somehow get bad IP range and never been able to have them whitelist me, re-attempting seems just put put me into a blackhole queue support on their team :(
Re: Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server
#43I've been using Maddy now for about a month for my email, and it's incredible. The dev says it's not caddy for email – but in my experience, it's certainly been that easy. I've got to write a longer article about this, but self-hosting email is incredibly liberating. I now own my entire digital identity. I can work on open source projects with developers around the world completely while relying only on my own capabi…
How did you get around deliverability issues?
I have literally never (to my knowledge) been rejected by one of the big boys (i.e. gmail or outlook). Was quite nervous about it in the beginning, but I haven't run into any issues.
I have had a number of bumps:
1. In exchanging emails with someone with a custom domain, I found there SPF record was broken and thus my server was rejecting their emails. I've weakened my policy and now their mail goes to my Junk, which I then manually move to my inbox because I'm lazy and don't want to set up a custom rule.
2. I wanted to subscribe to the Tarnsap mailing list, and had to decrease the minimum TLS level for outgoing mail to "none." Dr. Percival believes TLS on SMTP is "silly" (which, in the sense that all email is insecure, is true, but in the sense that email with modern security measures is better than nothing, is in itself a "silly" opinion).
3. I had some server downtime recently (https://figbert.com/posts/wrong-way-to-switch-server-os/) and couldn't receive emails, which sucked. But that was on me.
Re: Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server
#44I've been using Maddy now for about a month for my email, and it's incredible. The dev says it's not caddy for email – but in my experience, it's certainly been that easy. I've got to write a longer article about this, but self-hosting email is incredibly liberating. I now own my entire digital identity. I can work on open source projects with developers around the world completely while relying only on my own capabi…
Is there some sort of web interface for self-hosted e-mail that is reasonably good and sleek/modern-looking like Gmail, and also works well on mobile with swipe gestures and everything?
I try and use native clients or TUIs rather than webmail. I'm current using Mail.app and aerc and having a blast.
Re: Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server
#45I've been using Maddy now for about a month for my email, and it's incredible. The dev says it's not caddy for email – but in my experience, it's certainly been that easy. I've got to write a longer article about this, but self-hosting email is incredibly liberating. I now own my entire digital identity. I can work on open source projects with developers around the world completely while relying only on my own capabi…
What hosting service do you recommend to run it on?
I use Hetzner, personally.
Did a bit of a cost analysis here: https://figbert.com/posts/moving-to-hetzner-from-digitalocea...
Re: Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server
#46I've been using Maddy now for about a month for my email, and it's incredible. The dev says it's not caddy for email – but in my experience, it's certainly been that easy. I've got to write a longer article about this, but self-hosting email is incredibly liberating. I now own my entire digital identity. I can work on open source projects with developers around the world completely while relying only on my own capabi…
Is there some sort of web interface for self-hosted e-mail that is reasonably good and sleek/modern-looking like Gmail, and also works well on mobile with swipe gestures and everything?
I use mailcow and it uses SoGo which is quite pleasant in my opinion https://www.sogo.nu/
Re: Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server
#47Is catch-all supported? Couldn’t find an answer to that in the FAQ.
Yes! You just have to get it set up properly in the config (I remember reading about it in the docs or mailing list somewhere).
Re: Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server
#48I've been using Maddy now for about a month for my email, and it's incredible. The dev says it's not caddy for email – but in my experience, it's certainly been that easy. I've got to write a longer article about this, but self-hosting email is incredibly liberating. I now own my entire digital identity. I can work on open source projects with developers around the world completely while relying only on my own capabi…
Is there some sort of web interface for self-hosted e-mail that is reasonably good and sleek/modern-looking like Gmail, and also works well on mobile with swipe gestures and everything?
You can try https://www.rainloop.net/try-now/ they are pretty good with a slick UI. I would call it modern Roundcoube
Re: Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server
#49I've been using Maddy now for about a month for my email, and it's incredible. The dev says it's not caddy for email – but in my experience, it's certainly been that easy. I've got to write a longer article about this, but self-hosting email is incredibly liberating. I now own my entire digital identity. I can work on open source projects with developers around the world completely while relying only on my own capabi…
What hosting service do you recommend to run it on?
Maybe it helps to host the email server in a less known and maybe a bit more expensive ISP. I have been self hosting my company's emails for 10+ years and even changed IPs halfway (VPS migration). I vaguely remember having to setup DKIM and such when that became a things and never got any deliverability problems since (fingers crossed).
Re: Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server
#50Maddy is fantastic -- for greater flexibility/ease of deployment, you can pre-provision your DKIM keys as well. Maddy also works wonderfully when combined with other technologies, it's nice, simple and light.
It works great with Haraka[0] on the outside proxying email to maddy instances on the inside. I've also combined it with SES provisioned with Pulumi + k8s[1] (for those on AWS), which is a little bit more involved but is what I use on projects now.
Another entry in this space is chasquid[2] but I've only used/can recommend maddy. Maddy is so good it makes me think anyone could run a hard-multitenant email provider with ease (I'm essentially doing that for each of my projects).
[1]: https://www.vadosware.io/post/setting-up-ses-with-pulumi/