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Control Panel For E-Mail
Firstly, I can easily setup with a few hours of my time an email server. However, I am a bit lazy as of recent and wanted a control panel to manage, and deal with emails. Does anyone have any good control panels out there, that have some basic tools for handling emails and such. I was thinking of ISPconfig, or maybe... vestacp.
Looking for it to be self-hosted, open source or free. Work on Debian Linux.
I'd like a bit more tools to manage the E-Mail server than vestacp provides.
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MailCow
ispconfig should be a good choice, afaik you can choose which services you want to install and it can even handle a second server as fallback mx ...
+1 ISPConfig
Anyone used? https://modoboa.org/en/
If I am not mistaken MailCheap uses this as backend.
If I remember correctly Mailcheap uses Moboboa, not personal used it so not sure if it's any good.
Edit I mostly sure am right as a other user Nik posted the same just before me never seen it since I was typing at the time.
Cloudron recently announced a free tier which includes the email server (has unlimited domains as well).
It's coming soon, so stay tuned.
Self-hosted, works with any control panel and free for 1 server with up to 5 users.
Iredmail
the awesome selfhoted list has a lot of them - https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted#email
Vesta cp is more easy and convenient than isp config but in isp config, you get more options.
Directadmin
What extra do you want and you can't find in the list of your current control panels?
and I thought it is IMAP/POP client only?
@cyberpersons
You have an option during the standalone installation to enable the complete email server setup with out of the box:
@CrossBox
Backend is postfix?
If you simply want to ease the process of account creation/deletion and you're using postfix then look at postfix admin - http://postfixadmin.sourceforge.net/
It can be integrated nicely into an existing mail setup.
as someone who uses the free and the paid one: the free one is a pain in the ass.
Couldn't agree more. But it get's job done.
If it is a pain to use than I don't want it. The idea of the control panel is to save time, make things easier... not harder. If I wanted harder I would have just kept using the CLI for all configs. I just didn't want to spend the time searching through the server looking for config options.
How many email/domain are you looking at?
If only one domain you can always just get smartermail for free.
It would be a few domains.
What exactly do you want this control panel to do? You say you can "easily setup with a few hours of my time an email server". Fine. What's the problem beyond that?
Easy setup, logging, showing of queue. Id love some reputation information and others bits as well if it could. Mostly just a nice panel that gives me easier access to info about the email server in general.
Spam prevention...
Rule supporting....
I've used mailcow before. It does like a lot of RAM (works on a 1GB vps with swap) but the admin interface for domain/account management is quite nice.
poste.io do the job