Ask HN: What Mail Server Do You Use?

[coreyja]

Hey Hackers,

I am looking to move some of my personal projects and portfolio site from WebFaction over to DigitalOcean. Right now I use WebFactions mail servers for a few of my custom domains.

And was wondering what you guys use for mail servers. Do you use a hosted mail server, or do you host your own? Free, Paid or open source? Any recommendations for a small scale email server to use?

Thanks guys!

[jacquesm]

I use postfix, self hosted with some outside assistance.

Yesterday swombat pointed this out to me:

https://github.com/al3x/sovereign

There might be something in there for you.

[coreyja]

Ya that project looks awesome. There are a few things he has I don't think I will run, but I think I'll start with it and go from there. Thanks man.

[smagch]

Mandrill gives you 12000 free email transaction per month. On top of that, they offer integration with MailChimp. Therefore, I recommend mandrill!

http://mandrill.com/

[pdfcollect]

Anyone knows if something like this exists for python?

[jdn]

Dovecot on an Arch DigitalOcean droplet. Then pull the mail into GMail for ease of use and because I don't trust my own sys-admin skills not to blow up in my face.

[mcmak]

Do you pay anything for the gmail integration?

[Liongadev]

http://www.hmailserver.com/ works really well

[blakdawg]

Postfix. Self-hosted for privacy/confidentiality.