# Hosting my own mailserver for Discourse?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-my-own-mailserver-for-discourse/105316>\
**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")\
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**Author:** ![justin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/justin/32/157614_2.png) [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2018, 7:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-my-own-mailserver-for-discourse/105316/6 "2018-12-30T19:41:20Z")

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As a former IT guy, I echo @pfaffman’s advice. There’s a lot of unnecessary and troublesome work ahead if you choose to roll your own mail server.

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