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Alternatives to Mailcow? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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Hello, I self host an email server and I am currently using mailcow-dockerized, however I have found their community support to be extremely lackluster, and their software having major annoyances that have either gone unfixed for years or are so specific in scope that going through the song and dance of submitting it to their GitHub using their lengthy bug reporting process isnt worth it (because most of what they ask for is unrelated to the bug I'm reporting)

I want an email server that I can allow my friends and family to use, and that can generate random aliases they can use when signing up for websites or software that can be easily deleted if they no longer use the service or want their spam. I dont have very many requirements other than that one feature, and the software either being stable enough on its own, or the community being nicer around supporting their users.

Thanks in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Mailcow allows users to setup their own aliases similar to gmail with a "+" delimiter. E.g. [email protected].

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Mailcow also has randomly generated aliases', and thats kind of where my issue lies. When other users on my server set up any kind of alias, if that alias gets a spam email thats sent to quarantine, that email gets sent to the catch all email I have set up, which is annoying as the original person who made the alias for some reason doesn't get the email. I wanted to file a bug report for this but GitHub told me my post was too long because of how much log info their template asks me to provide so I threw my hands up and said I want a different project because the only software I host that gives me consistent small stupid issues like this is mailcow, such as the time it deleted dhparams.pem for no reason and caused dovecot to restart constantly, or the time the webUI broke and someone tried to convince me it was because I was using Fedora Server instead of RHEL or Debian. It doesn't help that their support forum only has a very small amount of people who are able to help, and their "live chat" is hosted on telegram which my phone number has been banned from. Its just very frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Insert logs in pastebin.com and attach links and you can open ticket on git.

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