Reliable, Deliverable, Self-Hosted Email

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2021-07-09 08:30:05

I have been on an ongoing quest to free myself from cloud services for years now. During this time, I have hosted my personal email (@bloomqu.ist) on a Google Apps G Suite Google Workspace account, which, while convenient, also means that my personal emails are at the whims of one of the world’s most privacy-hostile companies.

Obviously, this cannot stand forever. I wanted to self-host my email, but I know that self-hosting email is fraught with issues. The problems I wanted to avoid are as follows:

I cannot use an email service that does not have reliable sending and receiving. Happily, each of these problems has a solution:

In fact, Mailu is so easy to use, that we can configure (2) and (3) out of the box. Here is a step-by-step guide to configuring Mailu with an outbound SMTP gateway and backup MX server:

Follow the Mailu setup guide published on their website. Make sure to enable the fetchmail service - fetchmail will pull email from our backup mail server.