Dovecot
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
1warn against
Nov 4, 2025first mention
Oct 14, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Personally I prefer to have email history online in the form of a local IMAP server like Dovecot.”
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“my backend is still dovecot+postfix, still works beautifully”
handles email for small businesses for 20+ yearson “Self-host your mail server”
“it works perfect for `boring old and feature complete software´ like Dovecot.”
Caveats and dissent
“weeks of trying to make postfix and dovecot work”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
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Data: dovecot.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 15
“I'm going to turn this on right away”
“Personally I prefer to have email history online in the form of a local IMAP server like Dovecot.”
“My stack is postfix and dovecot”
“I've been running my own email server with exim and dovecot for 20ish years, I like the freedom it gives me”
“my backend is still dovecot+postfix, still works beautifully”
“Everything else is postfix, spamassassin, dovecot imap”
“I use Postfix and Dovecot”
“it works perfect for `boring old and feature complete software´ like Dovecot.”
“Postfix + Dovecot backend”
“to get dovecot, postfix, and virtual users set up on my new server”
“I used to do the same for many years woth dovecot as well.”
“if I use Thunderbird on my Maildirs (served by Dovecot)”
“migrated over the years to postfix and dovecot”
“weeks of trying to make postfix and dovecot work”
“Mail (dovecot, postfix, …)”