🆕 Software Suggestion | OpenSMTP (+ IMAP/POP Server) #1626
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Basic Information
Name: OpenSMTP + IMAP/POP Client (example: Dovecot)
Category: Become Your Own Email Provider
URL: https://www.opensmtpd.org/
Developer: OpenSMTPD is part of the OpenBSD Project.
License: "[...] an ISC license" [1]
Description
Considering OpenSMTP is only an SMTP server, users will likely also want an IMAP server (example: Dovecot)
Tutorial: https://poolp.org/posts/2019-09-14/setting-up-a-mail-server-with-opensmtpd-dovecot-and-rspamd/
In my experience, clients like Mail-In-A-Box lack the required documentation for users of platforms like BSD or even popular Linux distros like Debian; For example Mail-in-a-Box only has docs for Ubuntu. [2]
@dngray thoughts?
We could incorporate this into the new email section, but would very much have to be under an advanced heading. Setting up a mail server and maintaining it is by no means a trivial process.
20 Aug 2017
I definitely agree, anyone attempting to set up their own email server is going to be unleashed to a moderately difficult set of tools and pieces of software.
However as I stated in my original post, I do think users will realize that not all of them are running supported platforms by Mail-in-a-Box like OpenBSD or even CentOS.
Other users will probably want something a bit easier and lightweight than Mailcow.
For these instances, OpenSMTP could really thrive.
Also, I do think much of the headache with setting up a server is the documentation.
Perhaps PTIO and c0ffee.net could help with this, and add links to a tutorial.
Edit: Users may also want to consider the resources provided by IRCNow.
We will only be putting high quality resources there. That page is largely missing any meaningful documentation. It won't be added.
OpenSMTP is only one piece of the complete puzzle, we're not going to start recommending individual pieces.