Many other guides dive deep into 10 plus pages of how to set up such a service with Dovecot, Postfix and a web server all from the command line, but this one is a lot simpler because most of what you need is inside Citadel. Citadel also has calendar, Contacts, Notes, Tasks and chat rooms so can be a good alternative to Google or other providers. Your only cost really is the Raspberry Pi and a domain name if you don’t already have one.

You could tweak this a bit further by using your own DNS provider (or alternative to Cloudflare) and considering an external hard drive connected to the Pi for reliability.

See https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-email-server/

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    4 years ago

    Yes, now you have to get out of your way to detect the name of the master branch. You used to be able to assume that it was “master”, obviously much less code required

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      4 years ago

      That’s not true. Even when “master” was the default, i had to “get out of my way” to support many projects who did not use “master” as default branch name. Whatever setting i personally use on my repos, i can hardcode in my scripts. When dealing with other people’s repositories, it’s an entirely different story.