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Stalwart mail server (downonthestreet.eu)

submitted 11 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all.

I have been hosting my mail (not "self" like at home, but hosting on a rented server on the 'net) for the last 20 years going the old good way of postfix+dovecot+OpenDKIM/DMARC/SpamAssassin and all the glue and bells.

Having the opportunity to rethink the entire approach (which works fine, but its pretty cumbersome and complex to replicate) i was looking at Stalwart mail server which looks promising and nice, being written in rust following modern principles and such.

Asking to anybody who has been using Stalwart, is it good? Does it deliver being a solid mail server?

Asking to people hosting it's own mail, is there a better solution out there?

Asking to people commenting against hosting a mail server, please refrain from doing so, as i'have been doing that with success for the past 20 years that's what i will be keep doing for the foreseeable future as well.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I've tested it (on NixOS). But just for two weeks. I'd say it's pretty impressive. Certainly works. It was just missing some important (to me) feature (forwarding mail to external mailboxes). But they've added it since, so I would like to try again. It doesn't seem to have all the bells and whistles (and I didn't have a look at the program code) but the basic features of a mailserver seem to be solid. I can't really comment on the sustainability of the project, quality of the documentation... I mean if your setup includes niche edge-cases, custom tweaking and hooking into other software, maybe stick with the popular choice. But if you just want a regular, more or less simple mailserver, I'd say go for it.