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This is the first time I've heard of Yunohost, but their documentation instills a lot of confidence in me.

I've been thinking of setting up NextCloud or similar for starting self-hosting of our HOA's email server, and file host, but it felt like a huge lift for someone who has never done it before.

Seeing that this is a full-on OS distro (Debian based), has been used and improved for over a decade, has docs that address backups, restores, and various attack vectors, has all app users integrated via LDAP, I feel comfortable at least giving it a try.

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Setting up an email server is easy. Having messages sent from that server and appear in other people's inboxes is very hard.

Using outgoing esps (email service providers) and self hosting the rest trivializes this.

Or you can just run something like mdaemon and let it trivialize self hosting mail.

Self hosting is the original devops

IP reputation matters. If you self host, for the love of god don't use DO/AWS/Linode/etc. Small, established hosts are best, in my experience - shoutout to Mythic Beasts and (in times gone by) Bytemark for that.

Using outgoing esps (email service providers) and self hosting the rest trivializes this.

Or you can just run something like mdaemon and let it trivialize self hosting mail.