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?

  • @kylian0087
    1•1 year ago

    Everything i have found online is very much against self hosting a email server. Because your email will almost always end up in people their spam or wont be delivered. How true is this statement?

    • anders
      1•1 year ago

      @kylian0087
      Well in my experience it’s only true for Gmail. At Google there isn’t really anything to do other than people whitelisting your email address individually. At Microsoft you can fill a form to get your server’s IP whitelisted.

      In addition I registered at Zoho so in my email client I have two SMTP servers - my own and Zoho so I can get through to Gmail if I need to. Any other service accepts your emails if you comply with DKIM, SPF etc.