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I was going to ask if anyone had experience with Maddy, which is an all-in-one solution I’ve been eyeballing for a while.

Getting DKIM and postfix set up correctly was such a PITA, and then dovecot, I’m nervous about having to go through all that again and fretting about accidentally configuring an open relay, so I haven’t tried it yet. But it looks nice, and has been around for a couple of years.

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andocas@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’ve been using Maddy for about a year. I haven’t had any complaints, although my use case is very basic (running on bare metal, with just a handful of inboxes). DKIM is never pleasant but the Maddy configuration is straightforward enough.

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- sxan@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Thank you. I may try it; postfix seems to give me grief ever other update, like they can’t leave the damned config file alone.
  
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ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
mxtoolbox.com will help a lot with making sure you’re configured correctly.

And look at Mailcow if you’re nervous about setting up another server, it’s bulletproof and mature.

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- sxan@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I miss the old days, before you had to worry about spam.
  
  I’m not OP, and I have everything set up fine now; Mailcow would replace what I currently have with the same software components, so I don’t see any value there - for myself.
  
  Something like Maddy is completely at odds with the Unix philosophy, and yet I’ve fought enough with postfix to dislike it enough to want to try an all-in-one. I dread the DKIM setup, though; that took so much time, and the mail server configuration wasn’t the hard part. Maybe now I’ve got it configured for my domains, switching email server software will be easier.
  
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  - ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Mailcow was effortless and I’ve never had to intervene in the stack. And after 20 years of fighting postfix and dovecot, that was a pleasant change. I can see why you’d want to try something different, but don’t expect it to be easy.
    
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catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

fretting about accidentally configuring an open relay

That’s easy enough to test. Try sending mail from the Internet to an address outside your domain, both from a real sender and a sender spoofing your own domain.

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