What irritates me is that there's really no safe place for email. Even if you pay for a host they still have access to it all. You have to really trust them.

What irritates me is that there's really no safe place for email. Even if you pay for a host they still have access to it all. You have to really trust them. If you try to set it up at home you need a static IP and need to be prepared for it never working because of spam filters and stuff not trusting dinky self hosted services. And no matter what you do - barring PGP which nobody uses - it's all sent over plain text anyway. But that's less worse than anyone having your entire email life with one hack. Sigh.