# Use local email server/sendmail for outgoing emails?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** email, hosting\
**Created:** [September 2, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-local-email-server-sendmail-for-outgoing-emails/381354 "2025-09-02T18:55:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![MichaIng](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/michaing/32/251089_2.png) [@MichaIng](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MichaIng)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 11:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-local-email-server-sendmail-for-outgoing-emails/381354/5 "2025-09-02T23:59:53Z")

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> [@itsbhanusharma](#):
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> I don’t know if it will ever be worth digging that deep besides just for the fun of it.

Probably not 😅. But I am perfectionist in certain context, and I enjoy digging deep and learning all details. Took me several evenings to setup Dovecot, Postfix, rspamd, dkimpy-milter, PostSRSd, … step by step, learning about almost every setting available, why defaults are like this, whether and why we might want it differently etc. But hey, now I seem to understand most things better than most authors of arbitrary email server guides around 😛.

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