Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions

dave_c

@Alex-Sage
I like it a lot. My opinion:

The good

Great features: Sieve, rspamd, SOGo (or roundcube), full access to Postifx and others for customization
Good community: @andryyy is awesome, and he is not alone!
Light
Semi white label
I will stop, you are asking for issues

The bad

There can be issues with updates, so it is a good idea to watch github for issues and also Mailcow's news feed. I learnt the bad way to wait a bit before upgrading
I believe that it is not truly ready for commercial use. The main author has been burned by commercial users not supporting the project so features mostly useful for commercial use are not a priority

scottalanmiller

It it isn't ready for use, what's it for?

dave_c

@scottalanmiller
If you are referring to my "not truly ready for commercial use" comment:
With commercial use I meant "commercial mail hoster". An example would be the fact that mailcow uses Let's Encrypt to give each handled domain a SSL certificate, but that puts a limit of a 100 domains per server: https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/issues/461
Also, it is not easy to add high availability

Otherwise, it is a very good platform. I have production servers and hundreds of mailboxes

Edit: Commercial e-mail hoster is better than previous commercial web mail hoster

scottalanmiller

@dave_c that's a weird use of the term commercial.

dave_c

@scottalanmiller
I agree: My mistake

scottalanmiller

We just use our email internally, too. Not for hosting. We used to host, but a decade ago.

scottalanmiller

@dave_c said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:

@scottalanmiller
My Open Source solution of choice is Mailcow.

I'm looking into MailCow now with the holidays approaching (a little more free time... hahaha, not really) and it looks really slick.

dave_c

@scottalanmiller said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:

@dave_c said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:

@scottalanmiller
My Open Source solution of choice is Mailcow.

I'm looking into MailCow now with the holidays approaching (a little more free time... hahaha, not really) and it looks really slick.

Free time? What is a "free time"?

scottalanmiller

@dave_c said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:

@scottalanmiller said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:

@dave_c said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:

@scottalanmiller
My Open Source solution of choice is Mailcow.

I'm looking into MailCow now with the holidays approaching (a little more free time... hahaha, not really) and it looks really slick.

Free time? What is a "free time?

The time I'm sitting waiting for Comcast networking to catch up

Donahue

@scottalanmiller said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:

@dave_c said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:

@scottalanmiller said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:

@dave_c said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:

@scottalanmiller
My Open Source solution of choice is Mailcow.

I'm looking into MailCow now with the holidays approaching (a little more free time... hahaha, not really) and it looks really slick.

Free time? What is a "free time?

The time I'm sitting waiting for Comcast networking to catch up

ah yes, comcast time. That is coincidentally the same time that is used for when you make an appointment. between 8 and 2