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I run my own email server and have done for ~25 years, but what do you mean by 'secure'? SMTP isn't a secure transport. Having your email stored on someone el
by DamonHD 9y ago
I run my own email server and have done for ~25 years, but what do you mean by 'secure'?
SMTP isn't a secure transport.
Having your email stored on someone else's computers (ie the cloud) is not necessarily 'secure'.
Having a well-constructed and well-managed host somewhere you physically control seems to me the most 'secure' arrangement, which is what I have always had. Currently for the cost of a Raspberry Pi and occasional 'apt-get update' etc.
- Cilvic 9y agoThanks! I meant "more secure" = safer from (i) data mining/advertising and (ii) being locked out, than compared to gmail. But also quite secure from discovered security vulnerabilities. For example wordpress auto-updates and doesn't rely on me doing 'apt-get update'. I didn't mean secure as in "I want to keep out the NSA or anybody who's going after me in particular".
- Cilvic 9y agoAlso regarding the "well-constructed" and "well-managed" this is something I'm not versed to do / would prefer to use something existing / pay a subscription as long as I still stay in control in the sense "if everything goes wrong I can root into the machine and make changes".