And that’s that… I was building up momentum at home to just move to proton mail. Now? Now I got no choice but to figure out another way to self host my own email somehow. That’s an f-ing PITA.
Going to put https://tuta.com/ out there as an alternative, if people are looking for one. I don’t love their UI/UX, but it gets the job done and seems to be security and privacy focused. The clients are open source as well.
Self hosting email is very easy, but one thing you have to know is that you can’t proxy your email server through CloudFlare, so if that’s a problem for you, you’re gonna have to figure out some other service.
Is it? Running a mail server is easy, sure, but is actually ensuring that everyone you’re trying to send email to will actually receive it, rather than being spam-filtered?
I mean you can use an SMTP gateway, but that kinda defeats the purpose, since they can read your emails, and you are still dependent on that service. Finding a good and trustworthy, encrypted email provider is probably easier. Don’t forget that you can still use a custom domain.
And that’s that… I was building up momentum at home to just move to proton mail. Now? Now I got no choice but to figure out another way to self host my own email somehow. That’s an f-ing PITA.
Going to put https://tuta.com/ out there as an alternative, if people are looking for one. I don’t love their UI/UX, but it gets the job done and seems to be security and privacy focused. The clients are open source as well.
Self hosting email is very easy, but one thing you have to know is that you can’t proxy your email server through CloudFlare, so if that’s a problem for you, you’re gonna have to figure out some other service.
Is it? Running a mail server is easy, sure, but is actually ensuring that everyone you’re trying to send email to will actually receive it, rather than being spam-filtered?
Setting up self-hosted email is very easy.
Maintaining it is a massive pain in the ass.
I gave up on 2015.
This guy gave up recently. https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html
This is the exact post I was thinking about as well
I’ll take your word on it, when I found out I had to expose my actual IP, I decided it wasn’t worth it and stuck with Proton.
I mean you can use an SMTP gateway, but that kinda defeats the purpose, since they can read your emails, and you are still dependent on that service. Finding a good and trustworthy, encrypted email provider is probably easier. Don’t forget that you can still use a custom domain.