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How do you manage your own personal mail server?
How do you manage your own personal mail server?
Do you use a vps or shared host offer? Please give me the technical details.
Thx for replay.
How do you manage your own personal mail server?
- <empty>50 votes
- On a vps/delicated server54.00%
- Not, i use a shared host offer6.00%
- I don't use the email protocol.4.00%
- I don't know where to click and need a place to click. Here it is!36.00%
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I use Office365 for my personal email, a lot of people here favour MXroute
Two dedicated server with Mailcow as MX1 and MX2 works awesome.
Postfix, with Dovecot for remote access from a POP3 mail client.
Running postfix with postfixadmin on a FreeBSD box.
For my main email address I use @mailcheap
For my secondary online&incoming email only I use mailcow thats hosted on a vps.
If you are a tech savy person you can easily manager your own personal server on any VPS or dedicated server .. if not you can always go for third party mail services
I cheat and let @mailcheap do it for me.
Im looking at it this way:
For email I have rather high standards. Downtimes should generally be rather limited and quickly resolved. When I host my own server and I fuck something up, I sometimes dont feel like fixing it right then and there, and maybe it even takes me a few hours when I do get around to it. So Id rather outsource my main email account where I receive and send emails from and to professional sources and keep my own private mail server to receiving whatever spam I sign up to thats not critical.
Two VPSs from different solid providers in different regions. No big deal and next to no maintenance.
I use mailchannels
get it free from the company 
shameless plug
Mailcow on a VM I created on my OVH dedicated server. 1.5GB RAM in use/cached because I've got about 10-20 active users with about 100 accounts plus a mix of aliases and catch-all's.
Load is amazingly low.
Fastmail for main personal email, mxroute for some other stuff, various others like domain registrar emails as fooling around.
Mailcow is quite a nice setup I must say. Docked version of it isn't confusing either. Interesting enough in considering it for something
OpenSMTPd.
Legacy GSuite for personal domain and VM with Vesta on it for all other domains
Hmm. 5 might be a bit excessive, huh?
With bitcoin, paranoia and a tcp reverse proxy...
POP3 from paid host, and SMTP on my own VPS. No option for me to vote here.
Grandfathered free Google Apps FTW!
I've got grandfathered Google Apps too but wait until you get locked out of your account for 72+ hours with little or no explanation which my Paypal was tied to and I had some resumes out looking for work. Had some replies during all of that.
Quickly switched to self-hosted email after that.
I'm still on grandfathered Google Apps as well. It's no so much the hassle of running a mail server - though that is a hassle - as much as the GMail interface being so much nicer than anything in the free world for web-based mail.
use MXroute