# Hosting my own mailserver for Discourse? **URL:** \ **Category:** Self-hosting\ **Created:** [December 30, 2018, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-my-own-mailserver-for-discourse/105316 "2018-12-30T15:25:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2018, 6:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-my-own-mailserver-for-discourse/105316/3 "2018-12-30T18:18:15Z")
I ran mail servers for close to two decades. When I started, I started by porting Sendmail, UUCP, and listproc to Linux. For almost two years I’ve been considering running my own mail server again; I even have access to a Discourse forum that generates lots of mail (that I’m paying Mailgun to deliver) that I could use to warm up an IP, and it wouldn’t be the end of the world if some of that mail got classified as spam while things were getting started. I have a server that’s on an IP block that is not likely to be on lots of blacklist. Those a near-perfect conditions for setting up a mail server. I haven’t done it. If you’re sending fewer than 10K messages per month and have access to a credit card there is almost no reason to run your own mail server. Another “easy” way to do it appears to be Mail in a Box. You can get help on getting it working from [https://discourse.mailinabox.email/](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/) --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-my-own-mailserver-for-discourse/105316)._