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Do any of us host their own email? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have been thinking of completely going off Google. I have a Nextcloud server for documents and contacts and calendar. Thinking of moving mail away too. Currently I am conflicted between hosting my own email server. On searching only advice I am getting is not to do it.

How many of the homelabers do host their own email server? What software do you use? Any tips.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I use Mailcow Dockerized with no issues. But I've also ran email servers for 3 decades personally and professionally. If you try it, I would start out with a completely different domain and be prepared to be down for a long time while you figure out how to appease the anti-spam gods with things like SPF, DKIM, DMARC and DNS issues.