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How to set up your own private e-mail server at home with a Raspberry Pi Server using fully free and open source Citadel (pimylifeup.com)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Many other guides dive deep into 10 plus pages of how to set up such a service with Dovecot, Postfix and a web server all from the command line, but this one is a lot simpler because most of what you need is inside Citadel. Citadel also has calendar, Contacts, Notes, Tasks and chat rooms so can be a good alternative to Google or other providers. Your only cost really is the Raspberry Pi and a domain name if you don't already have one.

You could tweak this a bit further by using your own DNS provider (or alternative to Cloudflare) and considering an external hard drive connected to the Pi for reliability.

See https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-email-server/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

And a static IP address may be needed too to ovecome anti-spam services.

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

When I get my homeserver I'm planning to use a VPS with Wireguard to give it a static datacenter IP to host my E-Mail from home. If the E-Mail traffic is encrypted, even someone with full control over the VPS still wouldn't be able to get any content