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 date = '2024-11-19T16:29:01Z'
 draft = true
 title = 'How to Set up a Mail Server on Alpine Linux with Postfix and Dovecot'
+tags = ['mail server', 'alpine linux', 'postfix', 'dovecot']
 +++
 
 # About mail servers
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 knowledge and skills to secure a mail server. If you are not confident in your ability to do this and not interested in
 learning, you may want to find another solution.
 
+There are also existing solutions that aim to "simplify" the process of managing a mail server; there have always been
+plenty of services offering mail server hosting which is managed for you, the customer, and there are also projects
+like [Mailcow](https://mailcow.email/), which is an attempt to make a user-friendly distributable mail server stack
+based on Docker. It has a web GUI you can use to configure your mail server. This may be an option for people who value
+digital sovereignty but don't want to get their hands dirty with config files. I only mention this as something you may
+want to look into; I have never used Mailcow and cannot recommend it personally.
+
 # Why this tutorial?
 
 There are many tutorials on the internet about how to set up a mail server. I don't claim that mine is particularly