• Szymon@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      Lots of people here say Proton, but I’d also consider selfhosting my email on either a home server or the cloud, whichever meets my criteria for redundancy to stay online vs cost

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        9 months ago

        I hear self-hosting email is a really complicated thing if you want it secure and all that. I never tried, just hearsay.

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          The only problem with self-hosting is that big coorps like google or microsoft will put you on their spam list, so your e-mails will land in the spam folder when you send emails to gmail or outlook addresses. Other than that it’s not a huge hassle as stuff like https://mailcow.email/ or mailu or mail-in-a-box exist.

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            9 months ago

            google or microsoft will put you on their spam list

            Ah, wow. Yeah. That’s a big problem, or would be for me anyway. No time or energy to deal with that issue.

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            9 months ago

            Just make sure you add DKIM and all that. Mail in a box will do it mostly for you and it should take care of the spam issues at least until someone reports your emails as spam. For a personal email that shouldn’t happen.

            Basically sending emails without DKIM is like serving a webpage on HTTP; nobody should trust the page you got was not altered and the domain is properly registered.

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              9 months ago

              Without dkim dmarc spf and all that stuff it won’t even reach the spam folder, but get either silently dropped or rejected where mailer daemon will send you a nice message.