Self Hosted Email Server
Generated on 5 Jun 2025 from the Self Hosted Email Server catalog page
SelfHostedEmailServer.com offers the cheapest emails in the world: $0.133 per email inbox with 5 GB storage (minimum $25/month for up to 187 users).
Based on free and open source software postfix and dovecot for your email server.
From the control panel at “Self Hosted Email Server”, you can provision and install all the necessary software for sending emails.
Software Included
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Creating an App using the Control Panel
Click the Deploy to DigitalOcean button to create a Droplet based on this 1-Click App. If you aren’t logged in, this link will prompt you to log in with your DigitalOcean account.
Creating an App using the API
In addition to creating a Droplet from the Self Hosted Email Server 1-Click App using the control panel, you can also use the DigitalOcean API. As an example, to create a 4GB Self Hosted Email Server Droplet in the SFO2 region, you can use the following curl
command. You need to either save your API access token) to an environment variable or substitute it in the command below.
curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer '$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
Login to selfhostedemailserver.com.
From the control panel at “Self Hosted Email Server”:
- Create DigitalOcean server
- Deploy email server
- Setup DNS (For Cloudflare users, it’s 1-click to setup).
- Obtain SSL certificate (automated and free)
- Add users to your email server.
- Login to email server using your favorite native email client (Apple Mail or Thunderbird).
Please reach out to the live chat or email [email protected] for any assistance.