---
title: "What's your email setup?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-your-email-setup--tjnwacwlq
source_url: https://lobste.rs/s/bywnqo/what_s_your_email_setup
type: article
source: "Lobsters"
published: 2026-02-03T08:58:04.612Z
updated: 2026-02-03T08:58:22.685Z
tags: ["devops", "cli", "self-hosting"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# What's your email setup?

**[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A community discussion exploring various email setups, with strong emphasis on self-hosting solutions. Contributors share their configurations using tools like mutt, neomutt, aerc, and alpine for CLI-based workflows, combined with servers like Postfix and Dovecot. Many advocate for self-hosting email despite common misconceptions about difficulty, using SMTP relays to handle deliverability. Others prefer managed services like Fastmail or simple webmail interfaces. Common themes include using notmuch for indexing, mbsync for syncing, and various strategies for spam filtering and mail organization.

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