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?
@DidacticDumbass
Yes I run my own mailserver. I have done it for the last 15 years or so.
@selfhosted
Could you share you solution? You don’t have to! I am just curious how you do it since a lot of people seem to hate it, compared to self-hosting everything else.
@DidacticDumbass Wrote it here:
♲ rytter.me/display/4c906314-276…
Thank you. You and others are giving me a lot of options to consider!
@DidacticDumbass
You’re welcome :)
@DidacticDumbass But yeah you’re right. It’s a mess nowadays with email hosting because Google for example just rejects everything except the other big services even if you comply with DKIM etc. Fuck them honestly
Fuck them. Even after completely degoogling they still manage to fuck everyone over.
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?
@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.
Ahh oke. Thank you for the reply. This clears some clear misconceptions i hat.
@kylian0087
You’re welcome :)