Self Hosted Email Server
Generated on 7 Mar 2026 from the Self Hosted Email Server catalog page
Easily host hundreds of users on a cheap $6/month DigitalOcean server.
Based on free and open source software postfix and dovecot for your email server.
Easy-to-use wizard to build your own email server.
Requires a outbound SMTP relay like Amazon SES.
Requires a $25/month license from SelfHostedEmailServer.com – buy it here: https://app.selfhostedemailserver.com/profile/license-keys
Software Included
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Creating an App using the Control Panel
Click the Deploy to DigitalOcean button to create a Droplet based on this 1-Click App. If you aren’t logged in, this link will prompt you to log in with your DigitalOcean account.
Creating an App using the API
In addition to creating a Droplet from the Self Hosted Email Server 1-Click App using the control panel, you can also use the DigitalOcean API. As an example, to create a 4GB Self Hosted Email Server Droplet in the SFO2 region, you can use the following curl command. You need to either save your API access token to an environment variable or substitute it in the command below.
curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer '$TOKEN'' -d \
'{"name":"choose_a_name","region":"sfo2","size":"s-2vcpu-4gb","image":"autopanel-selfhostedemails"}' \
"https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets"Getting Started After Deploying Self Hosted Email Server
Very easy. Just follow the wizard at http://your_droplet_public_ipv4:8080/
You are required to buy a license to use. These are $25/month or $250/year. You can buy the license here: https://app.selfhostedemailserver.com/profile/license-keys
Please reach out over email [email protected] for any assistance.