Extremely.
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muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’ve never messed with it but I’ve heard mail servers are a pain in the ass.
Xanza@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Joelk111@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, all the threads I came across when I looked into this were like “Self host everything! Except email” so I haven’t looked into it.
ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
This has been said over and over again. I have been hosting Mail now for over 2 years and have yet to encounter any problems. Although, i would not recommend to set it up manually and rather advise to use one of the ‘all in one’ suggested solutions here in the thread.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Don’t u need a static ipv4 or something? I looked into it a while back even got the point of deploying a docker container but the config was so awful I gave up.
ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
It would be more reliable to use a ‘clean’ not blacklisted static IP.
But in theory you could just use ddns and update the IP. But I actually never tried it.
Mailcow comes ready out of the box. Just change the DNS entries according to Mailcow and you are good to go.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’ve heard that using ddns for mail gets u into all sorts of IP blacklisting issues. I don’t even have a non cgnat iv4 and I’m not sure if email can work with an ipv6 only
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
In theory you could use an smtp relay.
Which pulls the messages from the relay and also sends for you.
This way you won’t have to fiddle around with IP reputation.
But you are still interacting with a cloud service…