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I can't speak for all of them but I use mythic beasts in the UK for one mail server (they are a very knowledgeable old school host) and it has been good. I also have dedicated with OVH which is fine, and a couple small scale (eg simplelogin, a notification server) with IONOS but they only deliver to me so I can't say how reli", "context": "", "use_case": "Self-hosted mail server", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users"}, {"id": 769064816, "item_id": 48066551, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066551", "by": "amtamt", "date": "2026-05-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "is pretty good single binary mail solution for personal email hosting", "excerpt": "https://www.xmox.nl/ is pretty good single binary mail solution for personal email hosting, it not too many features of modern webmails are needed.", "context": "", "use_case": "Personal email hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running in RAM"}, {"id": 754923600, "item_id": 47182725, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182725", "by": "q0uaur", "date": "2026-02-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it also defaults to not loading HTML in emails, which i love", "excerpt": "i'm pretty sure Mox (email server with included webui written in Go) does that - at least the Umlauts in mails i get from Hetzner seem to always stand out. it also defaults to not loading HTML in emails, which i love. really opened my eyes to how dumb it really is to just accept all kinds of dynamic content in unknown messages. (kinda same as how the modern web relies on remote code execution to work)", "context": "", "use_case": "Self-hosted email server", "switched_from": "", "story": "I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye"}, {"id": 735828800, "item_id": 45989300, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45989300", "by": "cookiengineer", "date": "2025-11-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I can recommend trying out Mox as an email server.", "excerpt": "I can recommend trying out Mox as an email server. The author built everything from scratch and does a lot of great work when it comes to unifying everything. The wizard spits out all the discovery, DKIM, DMARC, DANE and MTA STS related subdomains you have to change the entries of (that is the most painful part) but everything else really works like a charm. 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I can't speak for all of them but I use mythic beasts in the UK for one mail server (they are a very knowledgeable old school host) and it has been good. I also have dedicated with OVH which is fine, and a couple small scale (eg simplelogin, a notification server) with IONOS but they only deliver to me so I can't say how reli", "context": "", "use_case": "Self-hosted mail server", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users"}, {"id": 769202690, "item_id": 48075168, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075168", "by": "alaudet", "date": "2026-05-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I am going to check out Mox and Stalwart", "excerpt": "You got me really interested here, I ran my own mailserver years ago and eventually just gave it up. I am getting rid of Google Workspace and have been planning a migration to Proton for two domains. But this sounds like a fun project. Any advice? I am going to check out Mox and Stalwart. What providers are good hosting candidates, I have a website on DO, but from my understanding their entire ranges are blacklisted ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users"}, {"id": 769064816, "item_id": 48066551, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066551", "by": "amtamt", "date": "2026-05-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "is pretty good single binary mail solution for personal email hosting", "excerpt": "https://www.xmox.nl/ is pretty good single binary mail solution for personal email hosting, it not too many features of modern webmails are needed.", "context": "", "use_case": "Personal email hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running in RAM"}, {"id": 754923600, "item_id": 47182725, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182725", "by": "q0uaur", "date": "2026-02-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it also defaults to not loading HTML in emails, which i love", "excerpt": "i'm pretty sure Mox (email server with included webui written in Go) does that - at least the Umlauts in mails i get from Hetzner seem to always stand out. it also defaults to not loading HTML in emails, which i love. really opened my eyes to how dumb it really is to just accept all kinds of dynamic content in unknown messages. 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Much much easier installation process than weeks of trying ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support"}, {"id": 732812672, "item_id": 45800792, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800792", "by": "72deluxe", "date": "2025-11-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Buy your own domain and run mox (https://github.com/mjl-/mox) on it.", "excerpt": "Buy your own domain and run mox (https://github.com/mjl-/mox) on it. In the setup it provides details on the DKIM info you need to put into your DNS records. Get a PTR record from your ISP (if hosting at home); periodically check your blocking from spamhaus etc. I run mine on a Pi4 no problem whatsoever, but I guess a VPS could also be used, although the scamalytics analysis will show it's a server or an IP shared wi", "context": "", "use_case": "self-hosted mail server", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time"}]}