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Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box.

38 mentions on Hacker News by 31 people: 8 stories, 30 comments · first 2014-04-23 · latest 2025-01-27

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  1. …hosting their own emails, I have found mailinabox to be a useful start: https://mailinabox.email/ https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
    comment by codegeek · 2025-01-27 · in Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email
  2. You can use something like Mail in a box [0] to setup your own SMTP server. [0] https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
  3. …the setup guide wants to you 'curl setup.sh | bash'. You might want to check it out first at https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
  4. Have you tried mailinabox ( https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox )? If so, what do you think.
  5. Source Code: https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
    comment by peter_d_sherman · 2024-02-25 · in Mail-in-a-Box – Take back control of your email
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    Mail-in-a-Box: a mail server in a box
    story by tambourine_man · 2023-11-24 · 128 comments
  7. …( https://blitiri.com.ar/p/chasquid/ ) - mailu ( https://github.com/Mailu/Mailu ) - mailinabox ( https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox ) - mailcow ( https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized ) - docker-mailserver (…
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2022-09-05 · in Email Done My Way, Part 0 – The Journey
  8. Just spamassassin and postgrey that ship with mail-in-a-box ( https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox ). I had an issue last year with it not detecting or learning a particular Russian spammer but as of ~4 months ago they all now…
  9. …following for running mail: https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy https://github.com/albertito/chasquid https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox https://github.com/Mailu/Mailu I personally use maddy and it's awesome
  10. …- https://github.com/albertito/chasquid - https://github.com/haraka/haraka - https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox - https://github.com/Mailu/Mailu Of course the usual dovecot + postfix setup is great for learning even if a bit c
  11. …mailbox[2] that make it much easier than it was before. [1] https://github.com/postalhq/postal [2] https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
  12. …the Nextcloud community, not from the MIAB forums). [1] https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/mail [2] https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox/blob/master/tool...
    comment by mastazi · 2021-01-19 · in How to leave Google and why
  13. …[2] See par. "What’s inside the box?" https://mailinabox.email/ [3] https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox/blob/master/tool... [4] https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/spaces/resources/s3-sdk-ex...
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    Mail-in-a-Box
    story by bengtan · 2020-07-20 · 1 comment
  15. According to [1] mailinabox seems to be not affected. [1] https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox/issues/1663#issu...
  16. …and domain name and it's fully automated solution that works great. [0] https://mailinabox.email/ https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
  17. FYI, there are some already https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox https://github.com/Mailu/Mailu
  18. …in fact have an e-mail server. I thought it did at one point. I guess you can use mail-in-a-box( https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox ).
    comment by wpdev_63 · 2019-03-12 · in Russia blocks ProtonMail
  19. I use mailinabox https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox on DigitalOcean droplets for my personal and work email domains. It’s been working great for months.
    comment by sreitshamer · 2018-10-18 · in Helm: Personal Email Server
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    Mail-in-a-box: feature rich single-click self-hosted email solution
    story by arpa · 2018-07-29 · 1 comment
  21. …rather than served. You may want to take things more in your own hands, requires more upkeep: https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
    comment by downrightmike · 2018-06-11 · in Alternatives to Google Products
  22. …) uses it to get SSL certificates too; you can see it in action here https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox/blob/master/mana...
  23. There is also mail-in-a-box: https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
  24. …[2]: https://www.caliopen.org/en/ [3]: https://kube.kde.org/ [4]: https://mailinabox.email/ and https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox [5]: https://roundcube.net/ [6]: https://www.mailpile.is/ [7]: https://www.rainloop.net/ [8]:…
  25. …Is your backend open source? Could you share more about how it compares to mailinabox? [1] [1] https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
  26. …any problms whatsoever, but the maintainer considered Docker too hard to setup in the end (e.g. https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox/issues/16 )
  27. There's a Vagrantfile that you can just vagrant up: https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox/blob/master/Vagr... I poked a bit and it appears that the setup script is interactive which complicates playing nicely with Docker somewhat. It…
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    Mail-in-a-Box – one-click, easy-to-deploy email server
    story by avinassh · 2016-11-27 · 90 comments
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    Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email
    story by pkaeding · 2016-07-09 · 1 comment
  30. If you're planning to run your own server, give this a shot https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
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    Mail-in-a-Box v0.14
    story by nikolay · 2015-11-06 · 1 comment
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    Mail-in-a-Box Security Guide
    story by joshdata · 2015-05-29 · 39 comments
  33. Take a look at https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox It's not production ready yet, but it aims to be suitable for cheap VPS (current requirement is 1G of RAM, IIRC).
  34. I am looking at this as a way to make things simpler: https://github.com/JoshData/mailinabox One small dedicated Linode instance for email.
  35. Don't know yet, but if you have thoughts please open an issue! https://github.com/JoshData/mailinabox/issues
  36. …else, please let me know and/or file a ticket (I don't think I'll be looking here for replies). https://github.com/JoshData/mailinabox/issues
  37. Thanks for the idea! I've added a test for PTR: https://github.com/JoshData/mailinabox/commit/ec11241a7a619a...
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    Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack
    story by api · 2014-04-23 · 145 comments