Eight Years of Self-Hosted Email: A Mail-in-a-Box Migration Story
2025-03-15
This post recounts eight years of using Mail-in-a-Box (MiaB) for self-hosted email, culminating in a recent migration from Ubuntu 18.04 to 22.04. Challenges included persistent deliverability issues with Hotmail (resolved by switching hosting providers), and database conflicts during a Nextcloud upgrade (manually fixed). The author details the complexities of DNS configuration and the backup/disaster recovery strategies employed during the migration. The successful migration underscores the author's commitment to software freedom and independence, highlighting the learning and persistence involved in tackling technical challenges.