So I’m migrating stuff from my old server to a new provider and only thing left is email.

The problem is I used luke smith’s emailwiz script ( the script and setup itself isn’t a problem ) because it uses system users for managing users with dovecot and friends to setup a mail server.

So now I’m looking for a new email server to selfhost (preferably docker/podman) that in the future I can easilly migrate.Would also love if somebody has a reccomendation on how I could backuo and import emails from the old server.

NOTE: I use caddy as webserver, so the server should have a simple way on getting ssl certs, or abikity to easilly make use if caddy one’s.

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      5 days ago

      This has been said over and over again. I have been hosting Mail now for over 2 years and have yet to encounter any problems. Although, i would not recommend to set it up manually and rather advise to use one of the ‘all in one’ suggested solutions here in the thread.

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          4 days ago

          It would be more reliable to use a ‘clean’ not blacklisted static IP.

          But in theory you could just use ddns and update the IP. But I actually never tried it.

          Mailcow comes ready out of the box. Just change the DNS entries according to Mailcow and you are good to go.

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              3 days ago

              Yes thats why i said in theory. I doubt that many residential IPs are blacklisted, but still not optimal.

              IPv6 only works but there are probably many Mail Servers that are IPv4 only, so you will not receive mails from them.

              If you are serious about it, rent a VPS or get a static IP on your residential connection.

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      5 days ago

      Yeah, all the threads I came across when I looked into this were like “Self host everything! Except email” so I haven’t looked into it.