MEmeysamazad·Jul 6, 2026
well done
you're among the first few who have done it:
https://github.com/mjl-/mox/issues/404#issuecomment-43627498...
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modern full-featured open source secure mail server for low-maintenance self-hosted email
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20 sourcesBuy your own domain and run mox (https://github.com/mjl-/mox) on it. In the setup it provides details on the DKIM info you need to put into your DNS records. Get a PTR record from your ISP (if hosting at home); periodically check your blocking from spamhaus etc.
I run mine on a Pi4 no problem whatsoever, but I guess a VPS could also be used, although the scamalytics analysis will show it's a server or an IP shared with an anonymising VPN etc. if it's a shared IP on the host.
In Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third timeI've been self hosting my email for a couple years. Currently using mox https://github.com/mjl-/mox
I'd avoid popular server providers like Hetzner or DO. Lots of abuse there so you might get dropped.
https://www.eth-services.de sponsors mailcow and has been pretty reliable
In Proton Mail suspended journalist accounts at request of cybersecurity agencyhttps://github.com/mjl-/mox/issues/242
They're thinking of doing this already and apparently have some pox/prototype code, and a user has suggested a thing in the meantime.
In Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email serverThe have info on Docker in their GitHub readme
Docker
Although not recommended, you can also run mox with docker image r.xmox.nl/mox, >with tags like v0.0.1 and v0.0.1-go1.20.1-alpine3.17.2, see >https://r.xmox.nl/r/mox/. See https://github.com/mjl-/mox/blob/main/docker->compose.yml to get started.
New docker images aren't (automatically) generated for new Go runtime/compile >releases.
It is important to run with docker host networking, so mox can use the public IPs >and has correct remote IP information for incoming connections (important for >junk filtering and rate-limiting).
In Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email serverI've not run it against it yet, but it's part of their Makefile: https://github.com/mjl-/mox/blob/2c003991bb98025582195d4f6a4...
In Mox: Modern, secure, all-in-one mailserverIt's interesting how there is now
* Maddy: https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy
* Mox: https://github.com/mjl-/mox
* and Stalwart
which all see to aim for more or less the same niche. I wonder if we'll see two of those merge eventually.
In Stalwart mail server (self-hosted all-in-one mail server) now as an admin webuiPitching my own: https://github.com/mjl-/mox has a "mox localserve" subcommand that runs a mail server on localhost for testing, including a pedantic mode and special addresses that cause failure conditions you may want to test for. This is actually a full mail server (SMTP, IMAP and much more) and it comes with a webmail client. The "localserve" mode was just so easy to implement that I couldn't resist.
In Trap and test AWS SES emails locallyMy Pi4 (8GB ram) runs:
1. Mox mail server at home (PTR record set up with ISP) - https://github.com/mjl-/mox.
2. Web server (no external hosting hurray); TLS set up via LetsEncrypt.
3. Navidrome for streaming my music collection to my phone/computers. I ripped my thousands of CDs to MP3. I use subtracks on my phone for listening to it, and sonixd on my computers (Mac/PC). https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome
4. mpd for driving some speakers via a USB audio interface so I can use some speakers plugged into the Pi for listening to music in the same room as the Pi (practicing guitar). I control this via the Supersonic app on my phone.
5. Wireguard VPN so I can connect home.
6. PiHole for my network at home. Combined with Wireguard, it means my phone is permanently connected to my home network and gets ad-blocking and stops apps dialing hom
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e. I use DroidHole on my phone to see what's going on.
7. xrdp server running, so a usable desktop is always available.
8. miniDLNA running connected to a NAS box so that I can watch all my DVDs easily on my TV downstairs (I spent weeks ripping them).
9. Tuya IoT API for turning some smart plugs in the house on/off via cronjob; I do this instead of using the timer in their app because it means my phone can be off the network/abroad and these plugs/lights still turn on/off.
10. linx-server (https://github.com/andreimarcu/linx-server) for sharing files so that I don't have to use Google Drive and share with people that way.
11. Peer Calls (https://github.com/peer-calls/peer-calls) so I can video conference in decent quality without having to use Google Meet / Teams etc. I also host a STUN and TURN server on the Pi so that Peer Calls works behind NAT.
12. Runs CUPS so that my very cheap Samsung wireless laser printer actually shows up as an AirPrint printer for my wife's iPad/iPhone and shows up in Android printing. (The printer does not natively have AirPrint capability but CUPS means I can provide it to users on the network).
It fetches time over NTP on a cron job. It also blocks various ASNs and IPs by country on a cron job to stop annoying remote pests and cloud providers. It also runs Monitorix so I can see system load, and goaccess on a cron job so that I can see who's hitting my website without having to resort to analytics nonsense.
It boots from USB3 (it has a NVMe in an IcyBox caddy).
Incredibly useful device.
Use mox on your own Raspberry Pi at home! Get your ISP to set up a PTR record for your static IP and enjoy email free of fear of losing it:
https://github.com/mjl-/mox
In Reasons to not use your own domain for emailInteresting indeed. What kind of classification would you have in mind? Separate out different types of senders, e.g. friend groups, or professional clients? Or more the personal email, transactional email, newsletter?
For bayesian junk filtering to work, you train with messages marked either as junk or nonjunk. I suppose you could train based on positive tag, and assume the message has the opposite signal if it didn't get that tag. My historic email is only classified for (non)junk. If I would start more classifications, I would have to ignore the existing messages.
Fyi, I'm working on https://github.com/mjl-/mox, which also includes a bayesian filter. This sounds implementable.
In Sieve: An Email Filtering Language (RFC 5228)Just run your own mail server on a Pi at home and get your ISP to set up a PTR record for you, assuming you are on a static IP. Mox is good and outputs all of the instructions for DNS etc.:
https://github.com/mjl-/mox
In You Can't Trust GoogleSieve is becoming a commonly requested feature. (;
For now, mox supports delivering to mailboxes with configurable rules, search for "Rulesets:" on https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/mjl-/mox/config. You can edit the config file (if you're the admin), or use the account web interface to add/remove/edit rules. I use it to get mail from mailing lists to the right mailbox.
In Show HN: Mox - Modern full-featured low-maintenance self-hosted mail serverLink for the lazy: https://github.com/mjl-/mox/issues/1
My own question is similar to one of the comments on the issue, how likely is it to have integrations with other authentication services? SSO was mentioned there, but I'm looking more specifically for integration on top of Ory products.
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