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This is the home documentation for “Homebox”, a set of Ansible scripts to deploy a fully functional and secure mail server at home or online.

The source code is on GitHub.

This project is for you if:

You are interested to host your emails yourself, for privacy, security or any other reason.
You want your server to be secure against both physical and remote intrusion.
You want a low maintanance box that keep itself updated automatically.
You prefer security and stability over latest features.
You trust the Debian community to push security updates.

Philosophy

You should be able to upgrade anything installed via the apt command. No git clone / wget / curl here, ever.
If you are using your own hardware, the disk can be fully encrypted using LUKS. Nobody will be able to steal your hardware and your information.
AppArmor is activated on the first boot, and all the services are configured to support it. This makes your server very safe against remote intrusion, even when using 0-day vulnerabilities.
You can set up multiple backup destination, local and remote, all encrypted.
A lot of default choices made towards simplicity, KISS principle, and safety.
Attention to details, keep focused on the nitty-gritty features of self hosting, like full IPv6 support and DNSSEC.

If you are interested in self-hosting, you will find a lot of interesting projects on the internet, for instance:

Sovereign: A different target, but a similar deployment approach using Ansible.
yunohost: Contains a lot of plugins and features, not all of them are stable, but it is worth testing.
mailinabox, more oriented towards online hosting, but very good as well.
and many others…

All have plenty of features, but maybe a different approach to self-hosting, though.