
Self-Hosted Email: Running My Own Mail Server Again
How I moved my domain’s email from a hosted provider to a self-hosted Postfix and Dovecot server in my home lab, the design choices behind it, and what I learned along the way.

How I moved my domain’s email from a hosted provider to a self-hosted Postfix and Dovecot server in my home lab, the design choices behind it, and what I learned along the way.

A modular Mutt configuration: per-account switching, msmtp for sending, and colour themes you can swap without touching the core config.

A private OpenLDAP address book secured with LDAPS, providing centralised contact lookup for Mutt and Thunderbird on a LAN.

How to build a reliable home mail relay using Postfix as a smart host with msmtp clients on Linux workstations, enabling sendmail-compatible outbound email for scripts and system alerts.