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📮 A fully featured open source mail delivery platform for incoming & outgoing e-mail

16 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 5 stories, 11 comments · first 2017-04-26 · latest 2026-05-27

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  1. They seem to be on 7.2, which will get security patches until August this year: https://github.com/postalserver/postal/blob/8ef89606bc34146f... https://rubyonrails.org/maintenance Not great, but better than 6.x.
  2. A great self-hosted pairing might be Postal https://github.com/postalserver/postal
  3. With self-hosting, you can do it but it takes time to get good reputation. I have set https://github.com/postalserver/postal and there are many details you usually don't worry about, the cost involved is whatever server you pay for, still,…
  4. …can integrate with rspamd as well and view each email's score as well. Interface is very clean too. https://github.com/postalserver/postal
  5. …large volumes of transactional emails (really it's just the cost of the server you install it on). https://github.com/postalserver/postal
  6. …matters, for smaller apps and well established mailing lists, self setup works perfectly fine. [1] https://github.com/postalhq/postal
  7. …one or two projects like postal[1] or 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
  8. …to achieve over 100 mails/sec on a 36 core system. Their github issue tracker is pretty active: https://github.com/postalhq/postal/issues/ This was a discussion we had regarding scaling of postal: https://github.com/postalhq/postal/issues/6…
  9. …of what has been teased here. Top of mind: Is Postal the self-hosted transactional mail server ( https://github.com/postalhq/postal )? Been looking at using this for an idea, and wanted to know if there are any obvious gotchas to look out…
  10. …If it's legitimate e-mail, I don't think it's much of an issue. PS: Postal SMTP is awesome. [1] https://github.com/atech/postal
  11. It seems a license will be added in a few hours - https://github.com/atech/postal/issues/6