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Ease of Setup
Mail-in-a-Box provides a simplified setup process with comprehensive documentation, making it accessible even for users with limited technical knowledge.
Full Control
Running your own mail server gives you full control over your email, including data privacy, security, and customization options.
Cost-effective
By using Mail-in-a-Box, you can avoid subscription fees associated with commercial email services, reducing long-term costs.
Open Source
Mail-in-a-Box is open-source software, which means you can audit the code, contribute to the project, and ensure there are no backdoors.
Additional Features
Mail-in-a-Box offers more than just email; it can also set up DNS, backups, spam filtering, and other useful features.
Sorry for the late reply. I’ve heard good things about Mail-in-a-Box[0], but haven’t used it myself (although I have/do use(d) a bunch of the servers/tools amalgamated into the product). The setup guide[1][2] also gives a good overview of implementation requirements. Have fun! [0] https://mailinabox.email/ [1] https://mailinabox.email/guide.html [2] Annoyingly, the setup guide wants to you ‘curl setup.sh | bash’….
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about 1 month ago
With things like https://mailinabox.email/ it is actually simple.
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about 2 months ago
Mail-In-a-Box (MIAB)[1] comes with a built in nameserver. I think you may use it as a standalone DNS even for the domain names whose email is not managed by MIAB. Not sure about any benefit of doing it this way though. [1] https://mailinabox.email.
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4 months ago
I’ve been using https://mailinabox.email on a small VPS where I host a few other websites and projects. I’d recommend it for the management aspect: It has backup scripts and a UI for let’s encrypt and dns entries.
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8 months ago
I don’t see why we are a long way away. At the sandstorm end, we need to get to the point, where all updates (of both sandstorm and the apps) on the user machine are automatic. Much like they are automatic on various OSes (mobile OSes in particular but also MacOS/Windows). This is not impossible if a single OS like Debian-testing is targeted. Mailinabox [1] almost does it. They target Ubuntu stable, and upgrades…
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11 months ago
If you have a better solution, for example a good provider who offer agency packages which allows many domains and there is no catch, for example very small disk space, then hit me right away. Otherwise, please share your experience with hosting your own mail service. I found https://mailinabox.email/ and https://www.iredmail.org/ for example, but never had any experience with neither of them.
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about 1 year ago
Mailinabox.email works great on a basic vps.
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about 1 year ago
I have used mailinabox for many years on a digitalocean droplet. I’ve recently added-on a small-time SMTP relay provider who is using mxroute as their upstream service.
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over 1 year ago
Something like https://mailinabox.email/ or some other dockerized mail service solution might be an option to consider.
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over 1 year ago
Mailinabox https://mailinabox.email/. All you need is a VPS with a clean IP, took me 3 tries to get one that wasn’t blacklisted on any list per mxtoolbox.com. I’ve been using it for 4 years now and have only had an issue receiving an email once.
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over 1 year ago
Or host your email server.
There is even services like r/VirtualMin & r/Webmin plus others like Mail-in-a-Box or iRedMail.
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over 1 year ago
Very lightweighy email server that I use and recommend is https://mailinabox.email/
However, after installing it you cannot do any other modifications to the same server because it already configures a customised nginx server and other things, after each update it’s not guaranteed that your changes will save.
You can try deploying in inside docker environment though, or use other alternatives like mailcow, iredmail.
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over 1 year ago
I’ve self-hosted my email for the last ~6 years, at first using mail-in-a-box; but more recently moving to a containerized poste.io instance. I don’t have any issues with delivery; but it’s likely due to how long I’ve been in existence.
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over 1 year ago
You don’t need any directadmins and stuff. Get a VPS server and install something like https://mailinabox.email. It’s a one command install, and you get webmail, nice UI to create and manage users, DNS server capabilities, nextcloud contacts and calendar.
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over 1 year ago
Mail-in-Box: https://mailinabox.email/ good for personal use or samll team or company (does not support quote or sending limits.
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over 1 year ago
Are you using DNSSEC and DKIM and SPF? Something like https://mailinabox.email/ set up on a clean domain should have no trouble delivering to Microsoft.
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over 1 year ago
If you want to self-host, I highly recommend a project such as Mail-in-a-Box.
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over 1 year ago
I’ve set up my email using Mail-in-a-box [0] and it’s worked wonderfully. How does this compare with Mail-in-a-box? Also, webmail, calendaring are future features in this product. I wonder how critical are those for people setting up their own email. [0]: https://mailinabox.email.
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over 1 year ago
I have used https://mailinabox.email/ for about 1.5 years. Installation was dead simple, and no technical problems after.
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over 1 year ago
I could, however I don’t send too many emails, and my MIAB instance (is on Linode, so not exactly really selfhosted) has had a 99% uptime for months, so I’m not too worried about the one email a month I send being wonky.
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over 1 year ago
I use mail in a box. Its pretty simple to setup.
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over 1 year ago
