Hi all.

I have been hosting my mail (not “self” like at home, but hosting on a rented server on the 'net) for the last 20 years going the old good way of postfix+dovecot+OpenDKIM/DMARC/SpamAssassin and all the glue and bells.

Having the opportunity to rethink the entire approach (which works fine, but its pretty cumbersome and complex to replicate) i was looking at Stalwart mail server which looks promising and nice, being written in rust following modern principles and such.

Asking to anybody who has been using Stalwart, is it good? Does it deliver being a solid mail server?

Asking to people hosting it’s own mail, is there a better solution out there?

Asking to people commenting against hosting a mail server, please refrain from doing so, as i’have been doing that with success for the past 20 years that’s what i will be keep doing for the foreseeable future as well.

  • @ikiddEnglish
    3•6 hours ago

    I looked at Stalwart and was intrigued by it being implemented in Rust. I’m not sure if I backed away because at the time I’d have had to give up a webui for configuring it, because that would have felt like a step back in ease of use. But it sounds like there is one now.

    I’ve used Mailcow-dockerized for about five years now and it’s been super low maintenance and I think they test their updates very well because I’ve never had a problem. I’ve added Roundcube webmail to it, but their instructions for adding that are very easy to follow. It uses all the standard backend under the hood so I find that comforting as that’s the stack I’ve used for 25 years anyway, I just wanted an easier way to maintain and update it and Mailcow fits the bill.