Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions
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@dave_c said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
@scottalanmiller
My Open Source solution of choice is Mailcow.How are you liking Mailcow? Any issues?
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@thwr said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
@scottalanmiller said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
I am trying to track down the best of the open source email offerings and figure out which is good, which is bad, what is unique and why to choose one over another. So far, these are the known high end candidates of which I am aware.
Does anyone have any input into what is good or bad, or any candidates that are missing from the list? I've not included some things like RoundCube which is just a client and not an email system. RoundCube could be used with any of these products, for example.
I'm a big fan of the classic Postfix + Dovecot (still in use/maintained?) + MariaDB/MySQL/PostgreSQL + SpamAssassin + ClamAV + Sieve + Roundcube combo. There's a pretty cool managesieve plugin for Roundcube which allows you to create filters from within the webmailer.
But it's a lot of work to get everything running.
Sounds like https://mailinabox.email/
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@Alex-Sage
I like it a lot. My opinion:The good
- Great features: Sieve, rspamd, SOGo (or roundcube), full access to Postifx and others for customization
- Good community: @andryyy is awesome, and he is not alone!
- Light
- Semi white label
- I will stop, you are asking for issues
The bad
- There can be issues with updates, so it is a good idea to watch github for issues and also Mailcow's news feed. I learnt the bad way to wait a bit before upgrading
- I believe that it is not truly ready for commercial use. The main author has been burned by commercial users not supporting the project so features mostly useful for commercial use are not a priority
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It it isn't ready for use, what's it for?
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@scottalanmiller
If you are referring to my "not truly ready for commercial use" comment:
With commercial use I meant "commercial mail hoster". An example would be the fact that mailcow uses Let's Encrypt to give each handled domain a SSL certificate, but that puts a limit of a 100 domains per server: https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/issues/461
Also, it is not easy to add high availabilityOtherwise, it is a very good platform. I have production servers and hundreds of mailboxes
Edit: Commercial e-mail hoster is better than previous commercial web mail hoster
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@dave_c that's a weird use of the term commercial.
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@scottalanmiller
I agree: My mistake -
We just use our email internally, too. Not for hosting. We used to host, but a decade ago.
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@dave_c said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
@scottalanmiller
My Open Source solution of choice is Mailcow.I'm looking into MailCow now with the holidays approaching (a little more free time... hahaha, not really) and it looks really slick.
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@scottalanmiller said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
@dave_c said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
@scottalanmiller
My Open Source solution of choice is Mailcow.I'm looking into MailCow now with the holidays approaching (a little more free time... hahaha, not really) and it looks really slick.
Free time? What is a "free time"?
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@dave_c said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
@scottalanmiller said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
@dave_c said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
@scottalanmiller
My Open Source solution of choice is Mailcow.I'm looking into MailCow now with the holidays approaching (a little more free time... hahaha, not really) and it looks really slick.
Free time? What is a "free time?
The time I'm sitting waiting for Comcast networking to catch up
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@scottalanmiller said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
@dave_c said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
@scottalanmiller said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
@dave_c said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
@scottalanmiller
My Open Source solution of choice is Mailcow.I'm looking into MailCow now with the holidays approaching (a little more free time... hahaha, not really) and it looks really slick.
Free time? What is a "free time?
The time I'm sitting waiting for Comcast networking to catch up
ah yes, comcast time. That is coincidentally the same time that is used for when you make an appointment. between 8 and 2
