Public re-post, I accidentally made this private rather than unlisted:
I'm looking for a new mail provider because my small Swiss provider doesn't support # ipv6 and my home network has now been IPv6-only for a year. My requirements
- full IPv6 support for web and mail (which rules out maibox.org which still only uses IPv4 for certain parts of their web sites and runbox which is IPv4 only)
- Switzerland or Europe based
- IMAP and SMTP support (which rules out Proton)
- Support for + sub-addresses (which rules out Hostpint in Switzerland)
- Privacy friendly, no AI training in my mails, no ads. Preferably no AI features at all (not sure whether this rules out Infomaniak who advertise some AI on the website)
- Preferably has a mail only offer for multiple users without any cloud office features
- Support for hosting my own mail domains (i.e. not Posteo)
And I don't plan to self-host because I don't have the time, even though @ Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:'s # RYOMS is still on my stack of yet to be read books.
Any ideas?
# askfedi # email
Recently set up email with #opensmtpd #dovecot , and #rspamd on #FreeBSD jails thanks to @mwl@mwl.io book #RYOMS https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ryoms and. @stefano posting a step by step guide https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/03/08/make-your-own-email-server-freebsd-opensmptd-rspamd-dovecot-part1/
and @BastilleBSD tooling to make jails easier to configure and test.
Previously, I had only used a development setup that included #postfix for internal testing.
I even got my first DMARC report...because the previous mx is still forwarding to my account on a large provider, and i didn't include it in the spf record.
It is currently IMAP only access because I don't need webmail, but I'll probably add that with a #postgresql or #LDAP backend since the separate passwd file would require manual editing, which isn't reasonable if other people need to update passwords.
I am grateful for all the people who made the tools and documentation so that it is possible to host my own email in 2025.
*edited to hopefully fix account links from mobile posting.
