AW: Self hosting solution for Christmas

[Joachim Lindenberg]

I have to support Marc´s question. And also - what makes HomeBox different from Mailcow (https://mailcow.email/)?
Thanks, Joachim

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Von: dovecot <dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org> Im Auftrag von Marc
Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. Dezember 2022 11:25
An: Andre Rodier <andre at rodier.me>; dovecot at dovecot.org; postfix-users at postfix.org; debian-user at lists.debian.org; users-request at sogo.nu
Betreff: RE: Self hosting solution for Christmas

> 
> Here my present for Christmas: a new version of HomeBox, the self 
> hosted email solution.
> 
> Feel free to drop comments, create issues, update the docs, etc.
> 
> I released this quickly before going on vacation, so you may find some 
> issues. However, this is mostly stable, and the code is easy to modify.
> 

That is why one should not be interested to much risk of lacking future support. What if your wife gets pregnant and there is no update/release for 9 months? ;) Obviously I admire such open source efforts. 
It is just such a pity to see so many projects initiated seemingly without first trying to bundle forces. This is especially visible in crm all these individual projects are 'shitty', I do not get why none of them try and work together to create a few good ones.

I used to always state that there is only one real distribution you could use, and that is the centos one. Basically because you could always buy a redhat license and get the support of a billion dollar company (now even IBM), but with their stream direction this all becomes questionable. However most projects do not even have an argument other than 'this is the distribution I know'.

The only long term alternative I see, is using containers that hardly have any os dependency and behave more like micro services. So you focus on the direct updates of suppliers.