[octosphere]

I like this, but it looks tricky to setup. There is an old dogma that has existed for a long time where people are advised not to run their own mail client because it's rife with show-stopping quirks that require lots of heavy Googling to fix and amend.

Interesting that their FAQ says it's easy to setup, but I don't buy it, at least from previous experience of setting up clients. (I once had to harden my VPS server rather substantially because they are juicy targets for hackers)...And I also once had to make it survive a reboot incase of too many connections were made by people trying to boot the machine offline (DDOS)

(https://www.mailpile.is/faq/#int-6)

> How hard will it be to install Mailpile?

> It should simply be a double-click to launch an installer on Windows, or dragging an app to the Applications folder on the Mac.

> On Linux we hope to provide native packages for most of the popular distributions.

[jammygit]

from what I’ve read in threads on hn, I thought there was a large chance that your email gets blocked by gmail when hosting your own mail, and that you have to worry more about availability.

I would love to host my own mail though. Am I mistaken, or does mailpile solve those for you?

[bpfrh]

As long as you use a VPS with a dedicated IP and configurer DKIM and SPF correctly gmail doesn't block you.

A easy solution for selfhosting would be mailcow.

Setup is basically a shell script which sets up the docker containers.

Backup and update is also just a shell script. Includes spamfilter and a nice webgui as well as the sogo webmail.

Mailpile is just a client, it has no bearings on the privacy.