[trevoro]

You'll probably hear this alot: Just dont do it. Seriously. Running a mail service is complicated and on your own it's barely worth the effort.

But if you're serious about it then start with learning Postfix as your MTA. This will only be good for inbound mail and delivering mail to local inboxes. If you want IMAP and POP3 then you'll need to dig into some other services. Courier is the most popular, but all the glue will still need to be written by you.

[Prefinem]

So if it is not a good idea, what is another option to use my domain for an email address?

And you are saying Courier is better than Dovecot?

[DrJosiah]

When Google Apps were free, my advice was typically just to let Google host email. Now that it's not free? Hard to say. You could just set up email forwarding, Postfix does that pretty easily.

[alex_doom]

FastMail always gets high marks from people who abstain from the Borg.

[Prefinem]

I thought about fast mail, just don't want to pay for something I could do on my own

[informatimago]

when google apps are free the fbi nsa et al read all your emails...

[viraptor]

Zoho hosts custom domains on their free business plan. You get both imap and not-ugly web interface.

[informatimago]

it is a good idea. but indeed, there is a lot of mobile parts to configure right in this fay and age of spam to avoid problems. in the early days it was much easier to run a wacky mta configuration.