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+title: Maddy: the five-minute mail server
+author: flewkey
+timestamp: 1641781240
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+I am waiting at the airport this evening, cursing the weather for delaying my
+flight for so long. I’ve already bumped my
+[packages](https://git.sdf.org/flewkey/flewkey-overlay), so I might as well
+gush about some software that I adore.
+
+A few months ago, [cricket](https://cricket.piapiac.org/) published a
+[blog post](https://cricket.piapiac.org/blog/openbsd-mail-server/) outlining how
+he configured his mail server on OpenBSD. Reading this post made me consider
+self-hosting my email as well, since Yandex is a pain in the neck to deal with.
+However, configuring a mail server seemed annoying as well, so I put it off.
+
+A few weeks later, I learned about the
+[Maddy Mail Server](https://maddy.email/),
+a moment which forever changed my life. The server is a single daemon with a
+sane default configuration, requiring no significant dependencies by default.
+It is so simple and foolproof that even I could set it up. After packaging it
+for Debian, guided by the
+[installation instructions](https://maddy.email/tutorials/setting-up/),
+it was smooth sailing.
+
+### Installing maddy
+* Install package
+* Make certbot keys readable for maddy
+* Set the domain name in the config
+* Start the daemon
+* Add the DNS records
+* Make an account
+* Connect an email client
+
+### Conclusion
+
+Setting up maddy is as easy as configuring NGINX. It only took me five minutes
+to get up and running.
+There are no more excuses: self-hosting email is easy now. If you are
+interested, please give it a go.