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It's no less safe than running a desktop email client and leaving that computer up 24-7.
by E6300 9y ago
It's no less safe than running a desktop email client and leaving that computer up 24-7.
- singlow 9y agoI don't think that's true. A home computer can be firewalled with no incoming connections allowed. Your VM in the cloud has potential attack vectors through your own control interfaces (http/ssh/pop/imap) as well as the hosting control panel. In addition it may be listening for incoming smtp. I might trust myself to configure all of those securely but I'm not sure.
- E6300 9y agoYou don't need to put it in the cloud. Just run it from inside your local network. If you want to access it from outside, you can setup a VPN.