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▲ Ask HN: What’s the best way to self-host email in 2026?
321 points by mail_sovereign 11 hours ago | hide | 6 comments

Tired of Gmail reading my mail. I want to own my inbox. What's the modern stack?

been_there 10 hours ago | 77 points | parent | prev | next
Don't.
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mail_sovereign 10 hours ago | 127 points | parent | prev | next
Not helpful. I want freedom.
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been_there 10 hours ago | 29 points | parent | prev | next
Okay. Mailcow or mailu, a static IP with clean reputation (good luck), correct SPF/DKIM/DMARC, PTR records, a warmup period, and then you check a blocklist every morning for the rest of your life and your wedding invites still land in spam. The freedom is the daily blocklist check. That's the freedom. You'll love it.
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mail_sovereign 9 hours ago | 151 points | parent | prev | next
okay but after I set all that up it just works right
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been_there 9 hours ago | 66 points | parent | prev | next
Microsoft will silently blackhole you on a Tuesday for no reason and there is no appeal, no human, no recourse. But yes. Other than receiving and sending email, it just works.
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thats_the_neat_part 8 hours ago | 155 points | parent | prev | next
I self-host my email and solved deliverability by relaying outbound through... a paid email provider. So I host the part that receives spam and pay a company to send the part that matters. Sovereignty.
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