Definitely exciting to see another very promising modern mail server option that seems to really be developing nicely. The major pain of self-hosting email for a long was ensuring delivery, but with SMTP relay services also getting quite slick that doesn't seem as much of a blocker anymore. Also means being able to clamp down even more tightly on the mail server at the network level as well as its own security since it only needs to talk out to the relay service and nothing else. In an ideal world there'd be a real solid secure DNS and in turn full e2ee email-like standard itself, and authentication could at least be one by certs in DNS.<p>But in the meantime email still fills an important role, and perhaps enough layers of options will get us close. After the Gandi.net sellout most recently this feels like propitious timing to me, I really dislike the typical email service pricing models. Paying just for the domains and relay, both of which are trivial to swap around at will, and then otherwise having that on my own infrastructure certainly feels attractive to try firing up again at least for a handful of domains.
Amazing I was just looking for a good mail server to configure for my demo. Which reminds me since you folks have mentioned LiteStream, have you tried Marmot (<a href="https://github.com/maxpert/marmot);">https://github.com/maxpert/marmot);</a> I recently configured Isso with Marmot to scale it out horizontally (<a href="https://maxpert.github.io/marmot/demo" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://maxpert.github.io/marmot/demo</a>). I am super curious what kind of write workload on a sub thousand people organization will have and if Marmot can help scale it horizontally without Foundation DB. I always find the the convenience of SQLite amazing.
Congratulations! Very interesting project !
I have been running my own servers with ISPConfig with PostFix and Dovecot for many years, but this modern all-in-one solution seems better integrated and complete.
As others have commented, rspamd integration would be a great addition, although I think using Proxmox Mail Gateway instead would give more control with more ease. Proxmox doesn't need any special integration. It works like a firewall for mail.
Why is this not set up to filter spam out of the box? It's not really an optional thing at this point, and writing Sieve scripts that work well is not necessarily easy.
Looks interesting, but something I always look for, is what it doesnt do and then try to find out why, partly because I'm not up to date with all the RFC's, so I couldnt tell straight away if those RFC's are the latest, proposed or deprecated.
It is new, but it would be interesting to see a list of customers using the system.<p>One concern is that Email is designed to be highly modular in the UNIX sense. Does this eliminate some of this modularity? For, instance can I still use Dovecot for IMAP, POP3 if I want?
Yay!<p>I’m just about to set up a couple of new domains, and was procrastinating because email. This looks perfect, something new to play with and get email set-up done at the same time :)
some comments from the folks responsible yesterday here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36757296">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36757296</a>