Building a Mail Server
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Ok. like the whole bundle .. exchange, word excel. Etc.
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We ran on Zimbra for mail years, then tried Rackspace and O365, but returned to Zimbra. Zimbra is solid and pretty easy to use and "just works". It's got a lot of features. Biggest complaint is that they used to be the absolute leader in email GUIs, now they are trailing terribly having not updated for around a dozen years.
Last year they promised a major new update, then silently dropped it. So a lot of people are losing faith in where they are headed.
MailCow addresses that a lot more aggressively.
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@mroth911 said in Building a Mail Server:
Ok. like the whole bundle .. exchange, word excel. Etc.
OH!
No one makes a single thing like that. But putting your own together is not a big deal. We use Zimbra, NextCloud, and Collabora. It all integrates and gives you storage like OneDrive, email like Exchange, word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software.
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We then add Rocket.chat instead of MS Teams. We use a normal wiki instead of Sharepoint. Nextcloud replicates the non-wiki parts of Sharepoint file storage.
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really
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@mroth911 said in Building a Mail Server:
really
Yup, we've been using that all in production for a while (Collabora is the only recent part.) Collabora takes LibreOffice and makes it hosted in your web browser so that it launches right from inside of your NextCloud storage.
It's a pretty nice package.
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@scottalanmiller nice I am paying 12.50 @ 10 accounts . For a small business its not cost affective. I dont have ad..
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@mroth911 said in Building a Mail Server:
@scottalanmiller nice I am paying 12.50 @ 10 accounts . For a small business its not cost affective. I dont have ad..
Ours run on our Scale HC3 cluster and probably costs around $15/mo beyond that, mostly for MailGun.
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Don't forget to factor backup, spam filtering, etc.
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@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
MailGun
Is that the same type of service as Sendgrid? Do you send all outgoing mail through it?
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@Pete-S said in Building a Mail Server:
@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
MailGun
Is that the same type of service as Sendgrid? Do you send all outgoing mail through it?
That's correct. We've had better luck with MailGun, though. Used both and I like SendGrid, but their deliverability wasn't very good.
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Apparently Twillio is buying Sendgrid...
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@Harry-Lui That is what I use for my sites. Its a nice little service.
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@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
MailCow is what we are looking at. @Alex-Sage recommends it. It looks promising.
You just never sit still.
I thought you were against self hosted email for most?
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@Dashrender said in Building a Mail Server:
@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
MailCow is what we are looking at. @Alex-Sage recommends it. It looks promising.
You just never sit still.
I thought you were against self hosted email for most?
For most, but it's...
- Not truly self hosting, MailGun is our actual MTA.
- We have the expertise to make it a non-issue for support.
- Our needs are relatively unique and the cost for hosted is extreme, we were going to go with Zoho till they did their 50% price increase.
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@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
@Dashrender said in Building a Mail Server:
@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
MailCow is what we are looking at. @Alex-Sage recommends it. It looks promising.
You just never sit still.
I thought you were against self hosted email for most?
For most, but it's...
- Not truly self hosting, MailGun is our actual MTA.
- We have the expertise to make it a non-issue for support.
- Our needs are relatively unique and the cost for hosted is extreme, we were going to go with Zoho till they did their 50% price increase.
the reason I actually asked that is - because no one asked the OP why he wants/needs to host his own email server. I'm more than a bit surprised by this.
Sure there are times when you need to, but that seems like the place to start.
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@Dashrender I would assume he is currently using a hosting service, and based on @mroth911 most recent posts is looking to cut as much cost wherever possible, and utilize his server infrastructure to the maximum capacity without any continuous monthly spend for services that he could host himself.
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@Dashrender said in Building a Mail Server:
@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
@Dashrender said in Building a Mail Server:
@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
MailCow is what we are looking at. @Alex-Sage recommends it. It looks promising.
You just never sit still.
I thought you were against self hosted email for most?
For most, but it's...
- Not truly self hosting, MailGun is our actual MTA.
- We have the expertise to make it a non-issue for support.
- Our needs are relatively unique and the cost for hosted is extreme, we were going to go with Zoho till they did their 50% price increase.
the reason I actually asked that is - because no one asked the OP why he wants/needs to host his own email server. I'm more than a bit surprised by this.
Sure there are times when you need to, but that seems like the place to start.
Because most of us have seen lots of threads from him and have an idea of what his situation is.
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@DustinB3403 said in Building a Mail Server:
@Dashrender I would assume he is currently using a hosting service, and based on @mroth911 most recent posts is looking to cut as much cost wherever possible, and utilize his server infrastructure to the maximum capacity without any continuous monthly spend for services that he could host himself.
Given his other posts, he may also be looking to be a provider himself. No idea if that is true, but reasonable.
