[tuldia]

The nicest email stack is: postfix, dovecot, rspamd and rainloop.

EDIT: go check it out :-) https://www.rainloop.net/

EDIT 2: I don't understand why other comments are so agressive against the author for sharing how he runs his own mail server, I'm not sure if it comes from one's frustration, failures, unreasonable expectations about email, but I noticed that everything related to servers or email receives this hate (here on HN, eh?). Come on, let's start a new year where we appreciate someone sharing their experience in running a mail server :-)

Happy Holidays!

[rahimnathwani]

"I don't understand why other comments are so agressive against the author for sharing how he runs his own mail server"

The author has been running his own mail server for less than half a week.

There's no suggestion in the post that his setup is robust or 'Gmail-like', as claimed in the title.

[acallaghan]

The email inbox with Archive/ All mail does work like gmail - I don’t use the UI. The filters are something I’m looking into

[rahimnathwani]

Here is a true statement: "I speak English and have black hair, like Keanu Reeves. I'm looking into growing a beard."

If, based on the above, I were to tell people I looked like Keanu Reeves, would you consider that a reasonable claim?

BTW I'm not deriding your efforts. I'm just saying there's a big gap between 'setting up my first email server with webmail and IMAP access' and 'setting up something with the features and reliability of Gmail'.

[acallaghan]

Thanks and cheers for being nice! Happy holidays to you too - I’m not really that surprised how negative the comments are here, including attacks on me personally it feels like.

If they don’t like it, stay with Gmail, I don’t care. I would just rather live in a world where the internet isn’t controlled by 2 or 3 big companies. Hacking a server for email and making it work like gmail was the aim, and I did it in less than an hour. Some people on here are pissed that I didn’t consider every eventuality, and filtering, and spam and this and that. Fine, but attacks on me as a person reflect more on who you are as a person.

If you don’t like how I wrote or setup the server, do one and make one yourself - or just stay with Gmail

[ShamelessC]

dang must have the day off or something. The number of rulebreaking "shallow dismissals" in the comments is staggering. Hope you don't let it get to you! This community often thinks it's the center of the internet in my experience, and by proxy any mistake that happens is some sort of crime against the internet that you should pay for.

[acallaghan]

Cheers, I haven’t - I’m old & ugly enough to read them and let it not affect me. A few have genuinely good points, and I’ve replied to those. Some are just annoyed i didn’t setup a 6 node Kube cluster with 24/7 AI intrusion bot detection with a brand new UI with OCR text detection for image uploads.

Experimenting on the internet is what i did, and it’s what I’ll continue to do, despite what other dullards might say is a waste of time

[addicted]

If youre not on the cloud (and even there on AWS and maybe Google Cloud…Azure is ok in a pinch… and iCloud everything if you also overlap with the Mac crowd) are you even an engineer, seems to be one popular strain of HN thought, which comes out particularly aggressively against e-mail servers because they are arguably the worst type of server to run on your own.

[tuldia]

Yes, and doesn't makes sense, I don't know, I run my own email server for more than 10 years and my experience has been "setup and forget".

I don't understand why so much frustration coming against owning your own stuff.

[kova12]

I think it's because many of us here also did run our own email servers at some point in time, until realization came how hard it is to implement and support all features one gets instantly and effortlessly with gmail and such