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Self-Hosted Email with Stalwart: From Zero to Delivered
By David Trapp — Systems Engineer, CISSP What this is: the exact runbook I followed to get off Gmail and onto my own mail server — VPS → install → DNS → deliverability — with my real choices filled in. I use Linode for the VPS and Cloudflare for DNS; substitute your own providers’ equivalents where they differ. Ubuntu 24.04 throughout. Follow it top to bottom, or hand it to an AI agent as the spec. ...