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Does anyone run their own email server? (lemmy.one)

submitted 2 years ago by DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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?

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[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 years ago

Great post!

I'm a rather dismayed to see those universities and institutes nowadays no longer as pioneers and innovators in this area, but instead as mere consumers of ready-made corporate solutions, following corporate interests and centralising solutions. I have two employers, both academic, and both have resorted to big-tech corporations that offer solutions like e-mail as a service.

Same here, my university recently switched from their Horde webmail to Exchange. The new outlook webmail is absolutely awful and I couldn't set up all the filters that I had before. Luckily I could enable IMAP login, thankfully without OAuth because imo that's another awful practice, so I can connect to it with non braindead mail clients. Still a massive downgrade and I bet they now have to run it on a 10x as powerful server because I hear Exchange is an absolute monster in terms of resource usage.

(Also, I've been self-hosting mail for probably 4 years at this point. Here's to many more!)