Video: How to Install Mailcow

Below is a now fairly old video (2020) from the Guided Hacking Youtube channel about setting up Mailcow that I used for deploying it myself. The steps are 99% exactly the same today as they were back then, and I think this is the best current guide on deploying your own email server today.

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Extra - Email Tools

When setting up your own email server, be sure to test your email "score" is when sending an email by using mail-tester.com. This way you can check that your mail server is correctly set up, and that the content of your email doesn't appear "spammy".

Also, you may wish to make use of Mailtrap to send emails to, for previewing/testing them for how they will be received on different email clients. They have a free tier that should accommodate most people.

You can also self-host Mailhog for capturing your SMTP emails, or set up a Mailpit server which is more comprehensive, but I do not have a tutorial for yet.

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