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A self-hosted email server rebuilt with Claude
The author recreated their personal mail server setup from scratch with Claude's help.
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In 2020 the author set up a personal email server on EC2 with OpenSMTPD, Rspamd and Dovecot. Years later, they used Claude to recreate the whole setup in NixOS, with better security and monitoring, and published the configuration so others can deploy it.
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- Hacker News: Recreating My Email Server with Claude
The author's write-up.
- Hacker News discussion (5 points)HN submitter: jbrotPosted
The Hacker News thread.