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Self-hosted email servers
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2014–2023), in 5 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Self-hosted email servers, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Hard to remember how the mail server was configured, forcing near-restart2023-12-28
- Obscure, scattered configuration with hidden side effects is hard to manage and understand2018-01-26
- Too many interacting parts, options and docs; couldn't tell which component was misconfigured2017-07-25
- Setting up Dovecot, Postfix and Exim is a painful, time-consuming ordeal for sysadmins2016-02-25
- Setting up a mail server means choosing software and editing cryptic configuration files, which is daunting2014-11-12