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Insular email distribution - mail server as Docker images

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Observed mentions: 2017-02-25 15:21:49 UTC to 2022-09-05 04:33:56 UTC.

01232017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2022

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

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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 Journey
I run my own mail servers for small projects, though for my main email I've actually switched to ProtonMail (previously dovecot + postfix). It's never been easier to self host your email with projects like the following around: - https://foxcpp.dev/maddy/ - https://github.com/albertito/chasquid - https://github.com/haraka/haraka - https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox - https://github.com/Mailu/Mailu Of course the usual dovecot + postfix setup is great for learning even if a bit complicated.
In Running a private mail server for six years, easy peasy
Everything with Docker: https://www.docker.com/ Rancher (to control Docker stacks, set up HTTPS with Let's encrypt, etc): http://rancher.com/ GitLab (git repositories): https://about.gitlab.com/ Rocket.Chat (internal chat): https://rocket.chat/ Sentry (production code error handling): https://sentry.io/welcome/ Metabase (DB analytics and graphs): http://www.metabase.com/ Mailu (email server): https://github.com/Mailu/Mailu Mailtrain (email marketing, using Mailgun or SparkPost): https://mailtrain.org/ KeeWeb (password storage and handling, kind of "self hosted", offline app): https://keeweb.info/
In Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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