

I tried stalwart. Could not run reliably on the server I rent. Too slow.
Instead postfix + dovecot just fly and barely used any resources.
Maybe tools like stalwart have use for bigger email servers, but for my use case it’s just massive overkill. Easy to setup tough.



I host my email, just not at home but on a rented server.
Here I documented it all https://wiki.gardiol.org/4-e-mail-hosting
It works, its been working for decades now. Never had significant issues…
Email is quite resilient. Servers keep trying to send again and again messages for hours before they give up… So a backup server is not even really required.