Comment by 🚀 hedgehog

=> Re: "We really should host our own email servers on VPSes" | In: s/self-hosted

Also read Solene's thoughts about this => gemini://perso.pw/blog/articles/email-selfhost-to-protonmail.gmi

=> 🚀 hedgehog

2024-09-22 · 4 months ago

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=> 👾 fab [OP] · Sep 22 at 22:49:

@hedgehog yes, sad to see anotherone leave the email self-hosting space. At least they doesn't use google or outlook. All in all a VPS is only someone elses computer. I know that. But I need a functioning IMAP and don't have a problem with strong passwords. For security reasons I use MailCow, because it's well maintained and has sensible defaults.

=> 👾 jecxjo · Oct 15 at 01:10:

i have been self hosting my email for over a decade. Honestly the setup and maintenance isn't an issue. My biggest problem is the cost of a VPS. If i ever get fiber I'll host from home but until then i have to shell out money for someone else to run a computer for me.

I would probably drop my email hosting and go paper correspondence for most things if it wasn't such a pain to switch the few things i still use email for to a new address.

Original Post

=> 🌒 s/self-hosted

We really should host our own email servers on VPSes — I got an email reply from someone who discovered my email 10 days after sending in his spam folder. I'm not sure why - maybe he hosts his domain at Outlook.com or Gmail and it's difficult to build up reputation for these A-holes. Or it may be because my VPS provider is on the UCEPROTECT-L3 blocklist (again). But I really like plaintext email despite all of it's problems. So I think the smolnet/IndieWeb community members should run their own...

=> 💬 fab · 37 comments · 4 likes · 2024-08-28 · 5 months ago