WildDuck
Infrastructure
self-hosted email server
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
11 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 33 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Design: 3 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 3 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Modern all-in-one self-hosted email solution fills a long-wanted gap
From 3 comments
Wow I was looking for something like that since ages. Best part, it's open source an made with Node.js/Redis, a stack I deeply love :)
js4ever on HNThanks, this is so timely. I was looking for something like this for weeks. All I want is IMAP server which can be managed via IMAP client api.
srameshc on HNI feel like self hosted emails is gonna be the next big thing, kinda like the pi-hole trend. This is awesome
dead_mall on HN
Estonian project, nice GUI
From 1 comment
Made in Estonia as I see. Congrats ! Very cool project, I really like the GUI part.
scblzn on HN
Objections
Node.js is a questionable basis for claimed security
From 2 comments
> While WildDuck is more secure by definition than most alternatives > ... > You can run WildDuck on any system that supports Node.js, Node.js and more secure by definition? That…
markvdb on HNv8 may be badass. but the quality of many of the libraries in the node ecosystem is .... questionable at best. Lots of newbs with no clues about security throwing out packages…
masukomi on HN
Storing mail binaries in MongoDB questioned versus filesystem
From 2 comments
Always interesting to see new MTAs! I'm not convinced that storing mails (including attachments) in MongoDB is a good solution. What's wrong with the filesystem? It's designed…
Tepix on HNWell, scaling a filesystem does not really sound easy to me. Scaling a dbms is rather common, I guess. I rather question, why do they store their binaries in mongodb? imho, s3…
mboehm on HN
Self-hosted email deliverability is poor from VPS and residential IPs
From 3 comments
I would love to set this up but I've seen too many posts on the front page of HN about how gmail is blocking their incoming mail and they are powerless to do anything about it.
55555 on HN> hosting on any of the notable VPS providers (DO, Linode, OVH, etc) has had fine deliverability in my experience, though emails may occasionally get flagged as spam. I can share…
nothrabannosir on HNMy mail from DO doesn't get rejected, but ends up 100% of the time in spam.
fanpuns on HN
Requests
JMAP support
From 1 comment
Is JMAP support planned?
toomuchtodo on HN
Catch-all address configuration
From 1 comment
I would love to try this. Is there a way to configure catch-all addresses for domains?
Ente on HN
SQL database support instead of MongoDB
From 1 comment
Nice! I recently migrated my home server from Ubuntu to freebsd and was lazy to migrate my postfix/dovecot/sieve/all-the-other-parts and eventually kept it running in a VM…
SillyPosition on HN
Questions
How spam filtering is handled
From 1 comment
How do you handle spam filtering for self hosted servers? I know there are black lists for SMTP servers, but I mean the content based filters that are updated based on recent…
mgamache on HN
How to send email with the API
From 1 comment
Cool project. Been looking for something like this for ages. But still cant figure out from the docs how to send email.
amolo on HN
Migration from postfix/dovecot
From 1 comment
Nice! I recently migrated my home server from Ubuntu to freebsd and was lazy to migrate my postfix/dovecot/sieve/all-the-other-parts and eventually kept it running in a VM…
SillyPosition on HN
Alternatives named
Poste.io
From 1 comment
See poste.io, it solves exactly this problem. (I've created poste because I administer multiple smaller mailserevers and thus scratching my own itch)
efesak on HN
Mailu
From 1 comment
mailu.io is an open source alternative to poste.io and bundles a classing email stack in an easy to use package. But it’s still quite complex under the hood. There is also an…
lifty on HN
Mailcow
From 1 comment
What's the difference with mailcow (a fully dockerized email solution) ?
F_r_k on HN
Mail-in-a-Box
From 1 comment
I use https://mailinabox.email/ it does pretty much everything for you very easy just host on linode.com.
gscott on HN
Forward Email
From 1 comment
See also https://forwardemail.net. Thank you Andris for making this possible.
niftylettuce on HN