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19 sourcesVAValdikSS·Aug 13, 2026
Many applications hammer the disk even if the developers don't believe this is an issue, not only journald, unfortunately.
It's my third attempt to make my regular Linux desktop less disk-chatty. This is a huge issue for btrfs and for COW FS in general, because they have massive write amplification for small and frequent writes (38,7 TB written to my idle desktop SSD in 2 years).
If you're interested, here are my findings this time so far:
- workrave: 60 second stat sync https://github.com/rcaelers/workrave/pull/717
- kde klipper: saves to disk on every copy, even if permanent storage is disabled https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501030
- kde plasmashell: saves qt shader cache each time notification popup disappears https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523805
- bitwarden firefox extension: tries to connect to desktop ap
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plication every 10 seconds, writes about every failure to browser's WebStorage 14+ KB https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/22192
- firefox datareporting/glean: very chatty .mozilla/firefox/xxx/datareporting/glean/db/data.safe
- ipfs: writes every received DHT announce to disk, 20 GB in 3 hours https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/constant-writes-to-datastore-log/20316
- mailcow: redis saves data every 5 minutes https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/pull/7405
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1 points · Open discussionI use G Suite nowadays, but I used to self-host up until a couple years ago. Mailcow is (or at least was) pretty nice and reliable: https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized
In Ask HN: Do You Host Your Own Email?My list[0] being discussed on HN as well[1]:
- maddy (https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy) (this is my personal favorite, I'm running at least 6 instances right now)
- chasquid (https://blitiri.com.ar/p/chasquid/)
- mailu (https://github.com/Mailu/Mailu)
- mailinabox (https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox)
- mailcow (https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized)
- docker-mailserver (https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver)
- Postal (https://docs.postalserver.io/) (more for API driven email apps)
- Haraka (https://haraka.github.io/) (SMTP only)
- Combine with [WildDuck](https://wildduck.email/)?
[0]: https://vadosware.io/post/its-never-been-easier-or-harder-to...
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32720234
In Email Done My Way, Part 0 – The JourneyHave a look at mailcow (https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized). Basically Docker images for Sogo and everything else (postfix, dspam, dovecot, etc).
I'm also stuck on Zimbra, but planning a move for me and my dozen users. I really like Zimbra's calendar sharing features, but Sogo seems to have a good implementation too.
In What are your most used self-hosted applications?I have been selfhosting my email stack on a cheap VPS (~ $10) for many years now, probably since 2009 or so. I used to set up everything manually, but that was quite painful and there were some rough edges.
Nowadays, I just use mailcow (https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized) for the setup part and have a much more polished experience. Email deliverability is not a problem. Generally, you just have to make sure to correctly setup DKIM/SPF (and DMARC) and check if your IP is on some blacklist. You can get it removed easily. (Edit: Also required is forward-confirmed reverse DNS, see below).
There was one provider that denied incoming mails from me, even though I got the IP removed from every blacklist I could find. I wrote a short mail to the admin contact and got told I had to host a web page with contact information on the same IP.
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Since being whitelisted there, everything works like a charm, couldn't be happier.
Just give me a dockercompose.yml. That’s all I need.
A positive example for this is mailcow [1]: all you need to do is pulling the repo, editing the mailcow.conf and running “docker compose up”. Logging is preconfigured, and the watchdog just works.
It’s dead simple and provides secure defaults. It’s ready for production in very little time. That’s what I would love to see from more projects.
I hope supabase will follow this at some point. I really like the idea of a self hosted firebase. But right now there is too much to take care of for a single person to actually take a self hosted supabase into prod (be it for side projects or whatever).
[1] https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized
In The case for open infrastructureYou could also consider buying a cheap, low-tier VPS somewhere and install Mailcow (https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized). Takes around half an hour to set up, flawless, worry-free, fully-featured email stack on your own infrastructure. Comes in cheaper than ProtonMail, too.
In New ProtonMailI use mailcow and it does both a) and b) very well. You can either selfhost or pay the developer to host it for you: https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized
In Small mail server best current practicesI personally like dockerized Mailcow: https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized
In Ask HN: Did Google turn off IMAP access for good over the weekend?Thats possible. Here an example of a open source mail server: https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/blob/f5522a809... They consider some TLDs as "fishy".
In Ask HN: Are certain ccTLD emails sent to blackholes?Alternative is mailcow https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized
In Mail in a BoxI wonder how this compares to dockerized mailcow (https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized). Mailcow is quite a beast, because it provides a neat frontend for users to configure their mail accounts.
In Dockerized Fullstack MailserverI use mailcow[1], which uses rspamd and it just let's through like 1 mail every few days.
[1]: https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/
In Life After Gmail: Why I Opted for a Private Email ServerShowing the 15 most recent of 19 sources. Enable JavaScript to search and browse every indexed mention.