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JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart

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345 points StalwartLabs | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 17:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.309s | source
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lifty ◴[22 Oct 25 18:54 UTC] No.45673554[source]▶
It’s such a breeze to self-host your own email server using Stalwart. It has been a new era for email self-hosters like myself since these kind of fully integrated email servers like Stalwart appeared. Another good one but not as actively maintained is Maddy.
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drnick1 ◴[22 Oct 25 20:24 UTC] No.45674698[source]▶
But is there any real benefit over Postfix + Dovecot other than "it's new and written in Rust?" Postfix and Dovecot have been around for decades and respect the Unix philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well.
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heavyset_go ◴[22 Oct 25 21:14 UTC] No.45675226[source]▶
It's one tiny binary that does everything you could possibly need for hosting a mail server, including an admin UI, and you get a bunch of modern and convenient features for free.

For example, it automatically handles Let's Encrypt certs for you. You get JMAP, CalDAV, WebDAV, CardDAV, IMAP4rev2, DKIM/SPF/DMARC, MTA-STS, DANE, spam filtering, SQL+blob+object storage backends, search, clustering, OpenTelemetry, etc all in one tiny binary.

Downsides: some features are gated behind an enterprise version and I think the dev team is one guy, or at least it was a while ago.

Having ran both for a long time, I'm sticking with Stalwart from now on as long as development continues.

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1. matesz ◴[23 Oct 25 07:09 UTC] No.45679063[source]▶
> Downsides: some features are gated behind an enterprise version

I treat this as an insurance policy. Even in this thread people mentioned how Maddy, which is an alternative modern full stack email solution in a single binary, lacks development efforts.

This is why we have this fantastic release for Stalwart - free shit.

Also as of now enterprise is for $0.2 per account per month which is extremely cheap unless somebody wants to build a big spam farm, of which as civilized Internet user I don't support. Obviously this might change, but even if you can always built multi-tenancy layer by yourself if you really need it - rest of the codebase is AGPL.