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 ### phpMyAdmin, Adminer or pgAdmin
 It is possible to install any of these to get a GUI for your AIO database. The pgAdmin container is recommended. You can get some docs on it here: https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/latest/container_deployment.html. For the container to connect to the aio-database, you need to connect the container to the docker network `nextcloud-aio` and use `nextcloud-aio-database` as database host, `oc_nextcloud` as database username and the password that you get when running `sudo grep dbpassword /var/lib/docker/volumes/nextcloud_aio_nextcloud/_data/config/config.php` as the password. 
 
+### Mail server
+You can configure one yourself by using either of these three recommended projects: [Docker Mailserver](https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver/#docker-mailserver), [Maddy Mail Server](https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy#maddy-mail-server) or [Mailcow](https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized#mailcow-dockerized-------). Docker Mailserver and Maddy Mail Server are probably a bit easier to set up as it is possible to run them using only one container but Mailcow has much more features.
+
 ### How to migrate from an already existing Nextcloud installation to Nextcloud AIO?
 Please see the following documentation on this: [migration.md](https://github.com/nextcloud/all-in-one/blob/main/migration.md)