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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
    comment by codegeek · 2024-10-11 · in Help Needed: Programmatic Email Creation and Management with Custom SMTP Server
  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
    comment by nobody9999 · 2024-08-16 · in Tmpmail: Temporary email right from your terminal written in POSIX sh
  4. Have you tried mailinabox ( https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox )? If so, what do you think.
    comment by is_true · 2024-06-15 · in Ask HN: Are you aware of a sane path to selfhosted email server?
  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
  6. …( 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
  7. 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…
    comment by andrewgioia · 2022-04-29 · in Tell HN: Gmail flagged my Firefox account MFA email as “dangerous”
  8. …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
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2022-02-23 · in I'm so sorry everyone. Or: why I'm switching to Cloudflare
  9. …- 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
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2022-02-22 · in Running a private mail server for six years, easy peasy
  10. …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
    comment by manquer · 2021-01-21 · in Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
  11. …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
  12. …[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...
    comment by mastazi · 2020-12-20 · in Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google
  13. According to [1] mailinabox seems to be not affected. [1] https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox/issues/1663#issu...
    comment by zubspace · 2019-10-27 · in PHP-FPM remote code execution bug exploited in the wild
  14. …and domain name and it's fully automated solution that works great. [0] https://mailinabox.email/ https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
    comment by SXX · 2019-10-14 · in “My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe”
  15. FYI, there are some already https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox https://github.com/Mailu/Mailu
    comment by jryan49 · 2019-08-01 · in Ask HN: How sensible is it to host my own email server on Linode or DO?
  16. …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
  17. 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
  18. …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
  19. …) 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...
    comment by bartdegoede · 2018-05-03 · in Free SSL on Github Pages with a custom domain: Part 2 – Let's Encrypt
  20. There is also mail-in-a-box: https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
    comment by webaholic · 2018-02-16 · in Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative
  21. …[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]:…
    comment by bigbugbag · 2018-01-17 · in Thunderbird Starts Working on Improving Its Interface
  22. …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
    comment by nishs · 2016-12-28 · in Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
  23. …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 )
    comment by stinos · 2016-11-28 · in Mail-in-a-Box – one-click, easy-to-deploy email server
  24. 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…
    comment by anonymouslee · 2016-11-28 · in Mail-in-a-Box – one-click, easy-to-deploy email server
  25. If you're planning to run your own server, give this a shot https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
    comment by snehesht · 2016-03-16 · in Tell HN: If you use Google Inbox and hit your quota you stop getting email
  26. 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).
    comment by fpgaminer · 2014-11-16 · in Encrypt your e-mail with PGP and random profanity
  27. I am looking at this as a way to make things simpler: https://github.com/JoshData/mailinabox One small dedicated Linode instance for email.
    comment by martincho · 2014-06-02 · in How to approach email for multiple businesses?
  28. Don't know yet, but if you have thoughts please open an issue! https://github.com/JoshData/mailinabox/issues
    comment by joshdata · 2014-04-23 · in Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack
  29. …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
    comment by joshdata · 2014-04-23 · in Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack
  30. Thanks for the idea! I've added a test for PTR: https://github.com/JoshData/mailinabox/commit/ec11241a7a619a...
    comment by joshdata · 2014-04-23 · in Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack