# iRedMail or other self hosted email with Mautic? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [January 13, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/iredmail-or-other-self-hosted-email-with-mautic/17775 "2021-01-13T17:30:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Warren](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/warren/32/4292_2.png) [@Warren](https://forum.mautic.org/u/Warren)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/iredmail-or-other-self-hosted-email-with-mautic/17775/1 "2021-01-13T17:30:57Z")
Considering iRedmail (or alternatives) for self-hosting email sends with Mautic to avoid using Amazon SES or similar. Pros / cons for a non-techie like myself to integrate this with Mautic? Anyone gone this route and would suggest it? There’s a guide I was going to follow here in order to get Mautic (and possibly iredmail) set up … he has a step-by-step guide for setting up both … Shall I go for it or other suggestions? > **[Install Mautic Self-Hosted Email Marketing Platform on Ubuntu 20.04 Server -...](https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/install-mautic-self-hosted-email-marketing-ubuntu-20-04)** > > This tutorial will be showing you how to set up Mautic email marketing platform on Ubuntu 20.04 with Apache or Nginx web server. Mautic is a free open source alternative to commercial email service providers like MailChimp. Key features of Mautic... Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![mikew](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/mikew/32/5156_2.png) [@mikew](https://forum.mautic.org/u/mikew)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/iredmail-or-other-self-hosted-email-with-mautic/17775/2 "2021-01-13T17:43:03Z")
Hey Paul. LinuxBabe also has a tutorial on Modoboa which is pretty good, however this setup (I guess for redmail) is a little more technical. For the cost of sending emails I would stick with a standard ESP like SendGrid or spark post. ---
**Author:** ![Warren](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/warren/32/4292_2.png) [@Warren](https://forum.mautic.org/u/Warren)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/iredmail-or-other-self-hosted-email-with-mautic/17775/3 "2021-01-14T13:31:55Z")
Hi Mike, will check it out, thanks. Linuxbabe in the Mautic setup tutorial links to his tutorial for iredmail so I assumed that’s what he would recommend – but will check out Modoboa as well … As far as having my own email server, it’s just a thought at this stage – but would potentially avoid other people’s experiences of being wrongly cut off from Amazon SES for some reason… but still considering SES as well. ---
**Author:** ![Warren](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/warren/32/4292_2.png) [@Warren](https://forum.mautic.org/u/Warren)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/iredmail-or-other-self-hosted-email-with-mautic/17775/4 "2021-01-14T14:06:15Z")
Thinking, at this stage, for ease of use and cost effectiveness that it’s hard to beat Amazon SES for use with Mautic for sending? – and I’d continue to use my Bluehost shared hosting (where my Wordpress site is anyway) for sending/receiving emails outside of Mautic. ---
**Author:** ![mikew](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/mikew/32/5156_2.png) [@mikew](https://forum.mautic.org/u/mikew)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/iredmail-or-other-self-hosted-email-with-mautic/17775/5 "2021-01-14T14:11:49Z")
I have no expereince with SES besides what I have read on the forums. Depends on how much mail you are sending. There are so many providers that are integrated with Mautic. You can use SendGrid and send up to 40K per month for $14.99 or 100K per month for $29.99. Sparkpost has similar prices, there is elasticemail, mailgun and others.