Mail-in-a-Box tries to make that a bit less painful. It’s not a mail client, and it’s not a dashboard on top of someone else’s hosting — it’s a full-stack, all-in-one mail system you install on a single Ubuntu server. One script sets up everything: Postfix, Dovecot, Nextcloud for file sync, a DNS server (optional), Let’s Encrypt certs, spam filtering, and a management UI.
Look, it’s not pretty. It’s not cloud-native. It’s not for production-scale messaging. But when you need a mail server on Windows that doesn’t pull you into a week-long project, hMailServer shows up, doesn’t complain, and just… works.
MailStore Home does one thing really well: it keeps your email yours. If you’ve ever lost access to an account, had to dig for a years-old PDF, or wanted a searchable backup that doesn’t depend on Google, this is the tool that quietly solves all of that.
