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[Question] Does anyone run their own email server?

3 years ago by DidacticDumbass to c/selfhosted

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All this new excitement with Lemmy and federation has got me thinking that maybe I should learn to run my own instance. What always comes up though is how email is the orginal federated technology.

I am looking at proxmox and see that is has a built in email server, so now I am wondering if it is time to role my own.

I stopped using gmail a long time ago, and right now I use ProtonMail, but I am super frustrated with the dumb limitation of only having a single account for the app. I get why they do it, and I am willing to pay, but it is pricey and I don't know if that is my best option. I guess it is worth it since ProtonVPN is included. It looks like they are expanding their suite.

Is it worth it? Can I make it secure? Is it stupid to run it off a local computer on my home network?

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lunarnexus 12 points 3 years ago

Only people who hate themselves

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DidacticDumbass 5 points 3 years ago

That is past me. I am barely starting to like myself now!

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Wintermute 3 points 3 years ago

Yeah, after I got my lemmy and matrix servers up and running I started looking at doing mail myself... The rabbit hole just kept getting deeper and darker, and MTAs seems to have stopped evolving in the 90s so I gave up. Email for my lemmy instance is now handled by Google. I've always used on of the big players (currently Outlook because I got a good username when they opened up the outlook.com domain) for my personal email.

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fuser 2 points 3 years ago

good call. the time spent getting postfix, dovecot and spamassassin set up so they actually work is nontrivial, and then once you congratulate yourself that it's all working perfectly, none of your email will be delivered, so you can then start learning about how overzealous blacklisting works.

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flauschke 0 points 3 years ago

I've been apparently hating myself for a few years now. It's going alright though. Google still accepts my emails. Hotmail appears to have blocked me but I'm working on it. I haven't noticed any other problems so far

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