brighteast

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Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] brighteast@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ve been self hosting email successfully for 20 years. My goto article for this question:

https://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-30/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-because-mail-is-hard/

TLDR;

  • Mail is not hard: people keep repeating that because they read it, not because they tried it
  • Big Mailer Corps are quite happy with that myth, it keeps their userbase growing
  • Big Mailer Corps control a large percentage of the e-mail address space which is good for none of us
  • It's ok that people have their e-mails hosted at Big Mailer Corps as long as there's enough people outside too