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I will say that I initially started hosting mine as a learning exercise, so from that point of view I think it’s totally worth trying out, even if you don’t keep it long term. :)

I just decommissioned the mail server I was running, because I didn’t have the capacity with the rest of life to keep on top of it. Mailu was my choice of suite, and it was really great once I figured out how to get it behaving nicely behind my reverse proxy. For the most part it was low maintenance, but I would occasionally have issues with cert renewal and subsequently my email clients would stop connecting. I didn’t have issues with non-delivery once I set up the various DNS records and did a lot of test emails that I could mark as not junk to various providers. I ended up switching to using icloud+, which includes email with a custom domain. Would I host my own email again? Possibly if I really need more than 6 addresses. But icloud+ costs less per month than the power consumption of the tiny server I was running mailu on over 3 days. Which is… Not insignificant in the current financial climate.

I’m definitely in the ‘sequel’ camp, but the favourite I’ve heard is ‘squirrel’. I couldn’t get behind that. I have done some stuff in spaces where ‘squeal’ was used, along with pig iconography being present in internal tools. 🐷