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.
Full disclaimer : I’ve only ever used stalwart. Started with it and had no reason to change.
Been using it for about a year as a mail server for my services.
The set up is simple, configuration can be done through the webui or the conf files.
Creating users, mails, aliases etc is very straight forward.
Everything is pretty much painless, the documentation has almost everything you might need.
You can also configure automatic cert renewal. Something else I really like is that when you add a domain (you can have multiple) it also gives you the DNS configuration to add to your DNS server.
Honestly I’d say it’s a solid choice. On my side it’ll be part of futur projects where a mail server is needed.
Thanks indeed a brilliant report, you seems quite happy with it