The self-hosting arc, abbreviated
Blocked port 25. IP warmup that takes weeks and dies in one blacklist entry. Gmail silently dropping messages that your logs swear were delivered. Reputation as a part-time job you never applied for. The advice threads all end the same way: "if your mail still bounces after three weeks, pay someone." Most people don't stop there — they give up the domain entirely and crawl back to Gmail.
What we run (it's the stack you'd have picked)
A full Mailu deployment — Postfix/Dovecot underneath, Rspamd for filtering, TLS in transit, DKIM/SPF/DMARC signed per domain — operated on our own servers, with reputation management as our actual day job. You keep standard IMAP/SMTP access and webmail; your mail client setup doesn't change.
Verify before you trust — please
Our production mail and our other company's both ride the same infrastructure we'd run yours on. MX records are public:
$ dig +short MX mailometer.com0 mail.mailometer.com.$ dig +short MX composure-pro.com10 mail.composure-pro.com.# both resolve to 167.71.102.86 — our server
What you own vs what we run
What you own
- Your domain and its DNS — always
- Your mail: standard IMAP, exportable any day
- Your exit: repoint the MX and walk, no ransom
What we run
- The Mailu cluster and its uptime
- Domain reputation, monitoring, and the warmed sending layer
- Spam filtering, TLS, and the 3 a.m. pages
Honest scoping: this is our infrastructure, tenant-isolated — not a private instance per customer. If you genuinely need your own box, self-host (we'll wave from the other side of port 25). If you need owned identity with working deliverability, that's exactly this.
Questions worth answering straight
Is it actually Mailu, or "Mailu-inspired"?
Actually Mailu — a full stack we operate in production. That’s a deliberate choice: standard, auditable software over a proprietary black box.
Why not just self-host? I’m capable.
You might be — and if tinkering IS the point, self-host and enjoy it, genuinely. The honest pitch here is time: deliverability is a reputation game that punishes part-time players, and we play it full-time.
Do I get a dedicated IP?
No dedicated-IP promises in early access — you’re on infrastructure whose reputation we manage as a whole. If that changes, it’ll be announced plainly, not marketed vaguely.
What’s the catch at $2?
Scope, not tricks: email and the tools around it, no suite. The price is the ownership model doing its job.
Not quite your shape?
Small businesses
Take your team off the per-seat treadmill. The math is short and it’s yours.
Freelancers & solo founders
One inbox, your name on the domain, priced like one person — not a team license.
Startups
Spend runway on the product — $2 inboxes that don’t scale against hiring.
Agencies & multi-brand
Every domain you run under one roof — hardening in early access now.
Own the identity. Skip the warmup.
Get early accessCheck the MX records first if you like. We'll wait.