9 engineers on Hacker News describe using Mail-in-a-Box first-hand: 5 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I ran a miab for about 5 years... Unfortunately... mst of your email will end up in spam folders.”
regret · personal · 5 yr · sammyjoe72 · 2023-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Mailinabox on a droplet, on a domain I own. Has worked great for 7 years now.”
endorse · personal · 7 yr · foobarbecue · 2022-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using mailinabox for over a year. My emails to the big email providers make it through.”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · abdullahkhalids · 2022-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have also been using mailinabox for over an year on Hetzner. While on rare cases emails I send will not go through...”
mixed · personal · 1 yr · abdullahkhalids · 2022-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For the past five years I've been using mail-in-a-box. It is generally problem-free, but problems can arise if you host it on a sub-par provider”
endorse · personal · 5 yr · anonymousiam · 2022-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using mailinabox for years now, and it is really good in the sense that it gets out of my way.”
endorse · personal · berkes · 2021-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it for personal and business email since May of 2016. It has been an absolute joy to use and administer.”
endorse · production · 5 yr · dqv · 2021-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I switched to mail-in-a-box in 2014, and contributed a few minor fixes, then”
neutral · personal · 5 yr · randallsquared · 2025-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“starting with my mail-in-a-box instance.”
neutral · personal · Netcob · 2020-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?